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Manual of Mental Science. 



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MANUAL 

OF 

MENTAL SCIENCE 


BY 

Leander Edmund Whipple 


New York 

The American School of Metaphysics 
1911 




Copyright, 1911, by 
The American School of Metaphysics. 
Entered at Stationers Hall, London, England. 
All Rights Reserved. 



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Contents. 
















CONTENTS. 


Chap. 


INTRODUCTION. 


I. 

II. 

III. 


IV. 

V. 


VI. 


VII. 

VIII. 

IX. 

X. 

XI. 

XII. 

XIII. 

XIV. 


Mental Science. 

Table of Facts. 

Reality, Being, and Life. 

'The Nature and Office of Principle. 
Table of Principles and Applications. 

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Concentrated Table of Principles. 

^ Subsidiary Principles of Action. 

The Universe of Reality. 

/-The Relation of Law to Principle. 
Table of Laws Considered as Expressions. 
Table of Subsidiary Laws of Being. 
.Table of Laws of Activity in Life. 
Symbolism in Mental Science. 

Table of Maxims. 

Rules for Living. 

Rules for Character. 

Rules for the Home. 

Rules for Business. 

Rules for Health. 

A Manual of the Mind. How to Think. 












Introduction. 




INTRODUCTION. 


In one form or another, Mental Science 
is rapidly becoming the most popular of 
theories for wise doing and right living. 
Coming forward, as it has, from the small 
beginnings of thirty years ago when noth¬ 
ing was known of its deep and wonder¬ 
ful teachings outside of Boston, Massachu¬ 
setts, and there only by a mere handful of 
venturesome investigators who had begun 
to study its wonders of action, it has to-day 
reached such proportions that its earnest 
followers are counted in millions. And 
new comers to the ranks of its earnest faith 
are safely estimated in hundreds daily, 
through every year. 

The system of mental and spiritual heal¬ 
ing now has its Churches, Schools, Soci¬ 
eties, Clubs, and Working Associations; 
with Meetings, Classes, Lectures, Clinics 
and Libraries; and with healing practi¬ 
tioners by scores and hundreds, every¬ 
where. 


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INTRODUCTION. 


An extensive Literature has also grown 
up along with the development of the 
working powers of the science. This col¬ 
lection of books has indeed become so ex¬ 
tensive that the average person scarcely 
knows where to begin or, in fact, how to 
find what he needs for his investigations, 
without, in many cases, an impracticable 
outlay of both time and money. 

With a view to help in solving this prob¬ 
lem this little volume has been prepared, 
to give in a handy and concise form the 
main points of fact, law, and rule of 
action for the using of the Science in 
daily life. 

Such a book, if constructed in a form 
sufficiently compact to be carried in the 
pocket, may easily be of practical benefit 
alike to student, investigator and inter¬ 
ested inquirer. The odd moments of the 
day, that are commonly wasted in idle wait¬ 
ing, may thus be employed in gaining 
knowledge so deep and practical as, in 


INTRODUCTION. 


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some instances, to change the entire course 
of one's life. 

In constructing a concise Manual for 
this purpose the aim has been to con¬ 
centrate expression of thought so as to take 
as little space on the page as possible, 
while yet conveying the information de¬ 
sired; and also, to so concentre the think¬ 
ing as to relieve the mind of either un¬ 
necessary process, or volume of expres¬ 
sion. 

If this can be adequately accomplished, 
and the little volume brought to the hands 
of the many earnest inquirers of the pres¬ 
ent day, it seems certain that incalculable 
good will result from its use. The want 
has thus far not been fully or adequately 
supplied along these lines. This is the only 
excuse offered for adding another book to 
the already voluminous literature of Men¬ 
tal Science. 

No attempt is made in this work to argue 
the matter of the truth or falsity of the 
many statements of Mental Science. The 


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INTRODUCTION. 


pros and cons have been extensively dealt 
with in Courses of Lessons by many 
authors and in numerous Books, where 
there is space for lengthy discourse and 
explanation. 

This little book of concentrated expres¬ 
sion is calculated not only for the daily 
use of those who have been through the 
preliminaries and have become sufficiently 
interested to desire a helpful guide in in¬ 
creasing the understanding of the facts 
and how to use them; but also for those 
who, while somewhat interested, still have 
not the time to follow out an extensive 
course of reading or study. It is also cal¬ 
culated to meet the wants of those who 
have not before taken up the study, but 
who would now like to do so. These, how¬ 
ever, may need also more elaborate descrip¬ 
tions, which can be found in other works. 
The discussion of the subject is too lengthy 
for this limited space. The writer has 
numerous other works and volumes with 
which he will undertake to satisfy the most 


INTRODUCTION. 


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critical investigator who is open to fair 
means and honest inquiry. 

This science deals with some of the 
most important points of knowledge of the 
universe and of life. The development of 
the understanding to the present time is 
pregnant with facts that are of the most 
practical use in human life, and of the 
greatest possible good to all humanity. 

This work presents an array of facts that 
are known to be as stated. Also, they are 
intelligently applicable in practical ways, 
so that anyone can test them in his own 
daily life, thus proving their standing in 
the philosophy by the results of living the 
action of the ideas. The importance of a 
correct understanding of these demon¬ 
strated principles cannot possibly be over¬ 
estimated. 

With these few explanations the little 
Manual is consigned to its mission, with 
a hopeful anticipation of extending a help¬ 
ful influence to each reader, through his 
own daily communion with ideas that be- 


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INTRODUCTION. 


long to the Universe, therefore are free 
to all, and to be readily obtained through 
a right use of the mind. 


New York, October, 1911. 


L. E. W. 












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I. 

Mental Science. 


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CHAPTER I. 


MENTAL SCIENCE. 

In approaching this subject for the pur¬ 
pose of concentrated thinking, we should 
first gain assurance that we rightly under¬ 
stand the meaning of the term under which 
we work. 

The phrase “Mental Science ,, appears 
to be somewhat misunderstood and con¬ 
sequently is frequently underrated. It 
means first: 

A Science of the Mind. Second: 

A Scientific use of the Mental Faculties. 

The term Science relates to knowledge; 
and for a definite purpose this should be 
both exact and enduring. Both of these 
high qualities are possible to the mind, and 
capable of being expressed in definite 
operations of the mentality. 

A mental process may, and always 
should, be exact in all ways, definite in 
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statement and ultimate in its conclusion. 
Such a process, when established, will be 
both logical and mathematical in character 
and must necessarily be scientific in its 
activity. Mental Science, proper, is of 
this order in both its nature and its 
character. 

The fact that some do not yet recognize 
its high character or use the mental facul¬ 
ties in such exact ways, should not militate 
against the system itself, any more than 
would be the case with other systems of 
action. Some do not yet seem to fully 
comprehend its high qualities and so they 
work along more familiar lines; but those 
who grasp the purer meaning and employ 
it in their thinking, may mount to the 
heights of right understanding. 

Mental Science to-day stands for and 
includes the best possible action and opera¬ 
tion of the mind of man, in all the features 
of pure mental concept and right accom¬ 
plishment. Incidentally it carries a healing 
proposition, because the right and there- 


MENTAL SCIENCE. 


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fore real processes of mentality lead direct¬ 
ly to a wholeness of idea; and such think¬ 
ing establishes healthy action, impulse, 
and generative force, with everyone. This 
opens the way to thorough scientific think¬ 
ing, and the knowledge that accumulates 
by means of such thinking comprises the 
“Mental Science” of to-day. 

The philosophy of this Science has its 
natural application to every phase of think¬ 
ing in human life. Herein nothing ever 
occurs that is unknown to the mind of 
man; or, in fact, without a knowledge of 
and acquiescence in its operative move¬ 
ment by some mind or minds. 

Mental Science, therefore, properly 
maintained, is the greatest of all sciences; 
for all systems of thought and of action 
have their inception, growth and develop¬ 
ment in the mind of man. Without mind 
in full and healthy operation, no science 
can have birth or proceed an instant in 
demonstrative action. The possibility of 
attaining scientific understanding is a mat- 


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ter of accurate thinking and appreciative 
attention. 

Having thus stated the proposition, as 
regards the subject of our thinking, we 
may now proceed to acquaint ourselves 
with the possible working facts of a 
“Science of the Mind.” 


II. 

Table of Facts. 



CHAPTER II. 


TABLE OF FACTS. 

The propositions stated here as facts 
of mental science, have all been care¬ 
fully examined, tested, demonstrated and 
thereby proved to be sound in nature, cor¬ 
rect in principle and permanent in action; 
they are, therefore useful to everyone who 
lives. These, however, are facts of the 
mind; therefore they require to be ex¬ 
amined by the deeper mental means, rather 
than by physical measure. They are the 
natural outcome of a right mental dealing 
with the permanent activities of human 
life, as conducted in the divine order of 
things and affairs. When we examine 
these facts through unbiased thinking and 
with sufficient mental accumen, we shall 
learn much that is practical about the 
principles and laws of life that come for¬ 
ward for consideration in these special 
studies a little further along. 

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The brief statement herein made of 
each fact and principle, leaves room for 
extended right thinking that, with each 
investigator, will develop a sure founda¬ 
tion of understanding of the ideas involved 
in its activities. Although commonly they 
are somewhat loosely held, these things 
are capable of being correctly understood. 
The knowledge to be acquired through 
such thinking contains scientific action and 
power, as well as philosophic character. 
These truths are embodied in the descrip¬ 
tion given in the following chapters: 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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EXPLANATORY TABLE. 

1— Man the real product of a living 
First Cause; or, as some would perhaps 
prefer to express it, the created work of 
the Creator, is composed of and comprises 
essences of being, qualities of character, 
principles of living and activities of life, 
all operating in concentrated combinations 
of force and power. 

All of these essentials are spiritual 
phases of being, and they necessarily 
render man spiritual, in both nature and 
composition. The facts of his existence 
render it impossible for him to be less or 
other than that.—Man is forever a spirit¬ 
ual being. 

2— Mind is a vital instrument for the 
use of the individual spiritual man in solv¬ 
ing problems and accomplishing the pur¬ 
poses of personal and individual life 
among the worlds of the external 
Universe. It is Spiritual Consciousness, 


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working outwardly for purposes of ex¬ 
pression.—The mind is man's living In¬ 
strument, spiritual and real. 

3— Each man has his own mind, which, 
because of its extreme intricacy and its 
close relationship to all phases of his con¬ 
sciousness, seems to be himself. In all the 
conscious operations of external life, as 
regards the present phase of his being and 
existence, this seeming is especially pro¬ 
nounced.—To each man his mind seems 
to be himself. 

4— The mind is a spiritual entity of 
life and action. It is the individual man 
turning his attention outward from the 
pure spirituality of his fundamental exist¬ 
ence, to look after ideas and things sup¬ 
posed to be separate and independent. 

Man turns from his perceptive soul-life 
of pure spiritual activity, in which he has 
his real being, to the intellectual mentality 
of a seemingly independent life, and there¬ 
by to his own comprehension becomes a 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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thinking mind.—The mind is the Mental 
Man; the man who thinks. 

5— The mind’s conscious action is 
thought. Each one’s conscious thinking 
expresses his deeper knowledge with re¬ 
gard to the subject under examination. 
Mentality constitutes and is the operative 
function of the mind; therefore it is man’s 
collective instrument for first action in all 
modes of conscious doing; and next for the 
accomplishing of physical results in ex¬ 
ternal life.—All things are first produced 
in the mind. 

6— Whatever the mind does, with re¬ 
gard to personal life, is faithfully copied 
in duplicate action within the body.—The 
body is the external instrument of the 
mind and reproduces the action of its per¬ 
sonal thinking. 

7— When we would think of man in 
the ultimate of his being, the man that is 
a real and permanent entity, we should 
view him as composed of spiritual activity 


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in living consciousness; although while 
considering him as a functioning operator, 
seeking knowledge, he may be viewed as a 
mind, operating through mentality. He 
lives on both of these planes at once. He 
is physical only in regard to sensuous oper¬ 
ations. Each thought about worldly mat¬ 
ters is reproduced in the body.—Man is 
spiritual in essence but mental in action. 

8—The chief function of man is 
Consciousness. On each plane of life and 
action he enjoys and exercises a particular 
phase of consciousness. As a pure spirit¬ 
ual being he is fully conscious in all the 
activity of wholeness. In our somewhat 
limited view of infinity we denominate this 
“superconsciousness.” It is the plane of 
first, the spirit; and next, the soul. Both 
of these are spiritual and real. 

On the more external plane he turns 
outward and moves downward toward the 
separating action of a “self” idea. He 
thereby becomes a mind and builds a mate- 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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rial body to represent his self-thinking and 
acting in life. His consciousness now 
takes on limitations, as compared with the 
ultimate degree, and we call it “subcon¬ 
sciousness.” It is, however, still spiritual 
in essence, and, also extremely intricate, 
far-reaching and powerful. In this state 
of consciousness the mind constructs its 
own body and animates it for use.—Man 
builds his own body, unbuilds it or rebuilds 
it, according to the state of mind that he 
is in at the time of action. 

9— All minds have a common basis of 
action in the universal mentality, where all 
are subject to the same laws of action, and 
in varying degrees share the same powers 
for operation. Each one is responsive ac¬ 
cording to the degree of understanding 
that he has thus far developed or attained. 
—Minds are one in nature, and fundamen¬ 
tally they operate together. 

10 — A thought, when intelligently 
constructed through mental process, takes 


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form as a mental Image suitable to express 
its action in character and quality. The 
substance of this Image is the activity of 
the thought, which comprises the intelli¬ 
gence that is involved in the understand¬ 
ing. The image expresses the thought 
in terms of action.—Every intelligent 
thought culminates in a mental Image of 
the form of the action involved. 

11— Mind possesses the power to see 
mental Images and to interpret their activ¬ 
ities, to the extent of comprehending the 
ideas involved in the thought. This is 
mostly subconscious mental action. It is 
natural to everything that lives.—Mind 
sees mental Images, which in milder form 
are called mental pictures. 

12— The character of the thought 
that is indulged by the mind will be repro¬ 
duced in the action of the mental Image 
that results from the thinking. When the 
character is agitated, fearful, doubtful, 
indefinite, aggressive, etc., the correspond- 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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ing Image will show forth the disturbed 
action. But if it be quiet, harmonious, 
peaceful, confident and right according to 
true moral standards the result will be 
harmonious. The reproduced action in the 
picture or image of expression of the Con¬ 
scious Thinking will always be in all re¬ 
spects like the mind’s intent, plan and oper¬ 
ation.—Images and pictures correspond 
exactly, in character, quality, form, power, 
and in all action, to the thoughts that they 
represent. 

13—A thought of fear always carries 
some degree of agitation, which repro¬ 
duces as distress in the mind. The mental 
picture that takes form through this think¬ 
ing will invariably show forth distress, to 
those who come in conscious contact with 
it. The action of the fear produces a cor-' 
responding image in the mind itself, and 
the action of the image reflects the fear in 
the nervous system. It is impossible for it 
to be otherwise. That is the natural law. 


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and to it we must adjust our thinking.— 
Fear in the mind is reproduced in nervous 
distress. 

14— Fear, when active within the mind, 
is a devitalizing influence, that destroys 
the equilibrium of action and generates a 
negative condition of unrest, because of 
the mental doubt; a veritable state of un¬ 
ease or dis-ease.—Fear in the mind results 
in sickness which may culminate in dis¬ 
ease, either mental or physical. 

15— These divergencies from the real 
life-activities occur only with the mental 
man. The spirit, and the soul (which also 
is spiritual) are not thus affected, and do 
not share the errors and illusions of the 
external man, who is merely the person¬ 
ality.—The mentality is the only phase of 
man that is ever sick; and the body is the 
only part used to express the wrong action. 

16— The physical body is the natural 
instrument of the mind, for use in earthly 
relations. It is produced or built and sus- 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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tained by the mind, in subconscious action. 
Through the activities of the nerve-centers 
the body reproduces, in physical terms, the 
action of every thought which relates to 
either bodily or personal living, or to any 
experience. Agitation of thought which 
produces mental distress, will reproduce 
bodily as nervous distress, and in equal 
terms of fear. Thus the body may take on 
distress from and because of fear in the 
mind, and so become diseased through a 
mental cause.—Mental pictures of fear 
reflect the action of distress in the nerve- 
centers of the body and thus produce sick¬ 
ness which may become disease. 

17—The reflecting mental action is 
mostly subconscious to the thinking indi¬ 
vidual, because both its substance and its 
activities are fundamentally spiritual, and 
cannot be recognized through the senses, 
except in their final results on the physical 
plane, where the senses always operate. 
This, however, does not detract from the 


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power of the subconscious action, but em¬ 
phasizes its superior position and impor¬ 
tance in the realm of human life.—The 
-range and power of the subconscious men¬ 
tality is far superior to all forms and com¬ 
binations of external sense-action, or 
sense-consciousness. 

18 —The mind operates, all of the time, 
more in the subconscious phases of men¬ 
tality than in the sense-consciousness of 
things and objects. 

In the external sense-features of life 
there is action and consciousness only dur¬ 
ing the waking hours or moments of the 
day, and this only in a limited and re¬ 
stricted degree. Subconsciously, however, 
the mind never sleeps, is always con¬ 
sciously active and busily engaged with 
the problems and duties of its individual 
(indivisible, whole) life and existence. 

This continues during both the waking 
and the sleeping hours of the sense-nature, 
which deals only with limitations.—The 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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mind of man is a continuous state of con¬ 
sciousness that can never cease to be, or 
to know real things and actions. 

19—For these reasons it is within the 
province of reason, and entirely feasible, to 
look within the realm of the subconscious 
mentality for the actual cause of every 
form or variety of sickness, suffering, un¬ 
happiness, distress, disorder or disease in 
human life. 

All of these seeming conditions come 
through a disturbed consciousness, which 
invariably begins with fear of some sort, 
and which always rests upon the plane 
of sensuous thinking. 

The mental picture of the fear-thought 
becomes implanted among both the sense¬ 
conscious and the subconscious activities; 
and it continues to be active there until 
removed by a suitable process. 

The mental distress is repeated in the 
nerve-centers, by means of the natural re¬ 
flection of its action, and a bodily condition 


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of dis-ease or disease, is the result.—The 
“Cause” of disease is first in the mind; 
therefore it is always mental. 

20—There is a soul-nature im¬ 
manent in the constitution of every 
individual; and this is finer, more active, 
and in all ways superior to all the 
phases of sense-mentality. But this 
superior phase of man’s being is not 
involved in any of the problems of 
sickness or trouble; all of those belong in 
the realm of the mind. 

The soul part of man is pure spirit, in¬ 
dividualized but not degraded in lower 
orders of limited action and the conse¬ 
quent illusion and loss of power. 

The soul phase of being is the real man 
individualized in correct form. The mind 
is its outward expression, operating under 
the idea of a separateness of its own life. 
Only on the seeming plane of a separate 
mental being can the person be deceived. 
On its own ground of spiritual conscious- 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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ness the soul is a whole and harmonious 
entity, knowing all the facts of life.—The 
soul is real and is never sick or deluded. 

21— Above and beyond all of these 
phases of man’s external existence is the 
Pure Spirit, which is life and being, in the 
fulness of active reality. This is both the 
fundamental and the ultimate being of 
man. “The man that God made.” It is 
the pure manifestation of the being of God, 
who is the Whole of Reality. Plere man 
rightly represents the whole, and is neces¬ 
sarily perfect in all ways, infinite, eternal, 
changeless and real. 

Sickness bears no relation to this phase 
of actual reality in being. Man, the Son 
of God, the offspring of Reality, is whole 
and knows no limitations.—The mentality 
is the only source of sickness, and the mind, 
while thinking truth is the only adequate 
curative agency. 

22— Many features of fear are enter¬ 
tained by the mind, that are formed either 


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suddenly or gradually, and are accord¬ 
ingly either acute or chronic in action. 
The bodily conditions that develop from 
them bear corresponding degrees of dis¬ 
turbance, and each reproduces the charac¬ 
ter as well as the intensity of the fear in¬ 
volved.—The disease of the body always 
corresponds to its cause in the mind. 

23— The thought action that is re¬ 
quired to remove a cause and so relieve a 
condition, will contain action of a char¬ 
acter opposite to that which causes the 
disturbance; and at every step it will be 
based upon the same truth of being and 
life from which there has been a deviation 
in the causative fear-thought.—Curative 
thought is based upon fundamental truth 
and is the direct opposite of all thought 
that can cause disease. 

24— A thought that is rightly based 
upon truth itself, that which is real and 
therefore must be right, about being and 
life for all and at all times, is universally 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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more powerful than one that has been 
formed under illusion, or in error of any 
kind. This is so because it is purer in 
conception, brighter in intelligence, clearer 
in action, higher in purpose, and repre¬ 
sents finer and more forceful activities on 
all the planes of life. All truth is perfect, 
whole and enduring.—Thoughts of actual 
truth are superior to those of error, in any 
form. 

25—The emotions are always based 
upon sensuous thinking even though at¬ 
tached to subjects, objects, things or per¬ 
sons, with spiritual and moral intentions 
in the thinking. Truth itself has no emo¬ 
tional features; on the contrary it is always 
calm, quiet and perfect in every activity. 
It is reached only through exact processes 
of thinking. That which is brought for¬ 
ward otherwise is not Truth. What we 
would like to have it be or appear, is not 
the problem; but what actually is so and 
will stand every test of examination, is the 


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only question to be entertained.—Truth 
is exact and has no emotional or sensuous 
forms. It rests in Reality. 

26— Exact thinking produces exact 
action all along the line of intelligent oper¬ 
ation. The pictures resulting from such 
thinking will carry the features of exact¬ 
ness from one plane to another, through¬ 
out the operation. 

Thus, upon the line of facts herein out¬ 
lined we may establish a system of think¬ 
ing that shall be true, exact, definite and 
applicable correctively to all cases where 
wrong action has gained a foot-hold. 

In this powerful and pure thinking a 
healing power of the mind is always cer¬ 
tain to be found.—Exact thinking renders 
Mental Healing possible, sure and safe. 

27— Exact thinking along the lines 
of activity and according to the principles 
of truth as expressed in human life, can 
produce only the best of results; therefore 
no harm can come to anyone from pure 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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mental healing. It is one of the best of 
influences in all phases of life. Its only 
outcome is good. It elevates the character 
of every thought.—The influences of Men¬ 
tal Healing and the operations of Mental 
Science all operate for the good of man¬ 
kind. 

28—Mental Science itself is more far- 
reaching and all-inclusive than what is 
comprehended under the head of “Mental 
Healing. ,, The healing philosophy and 
thought comprise all spiritual activity and 
mental action that relates to human life, 
on all planes where the mind operates in 
such ways that healing becomes necessary 
in daily life; and this, itself, is an extensive 
range of action. 

But Mental Science, as a broader and 
more comprehensive conception, has a di¬ 
rect bearing upon all possible features of 
the doings of the mind, and all forms of 
thinking, for every process and purpose 
in life; for learning, teaching, construct- 


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ing, inventing, and the producing of re¬ 
sults; for leadership, influence, success in 
right endeavor, and for all accomplishment 
native to the human mind in all of its 
pursuits. 

For all of these Mental Science contains 
formulated rules, based upon the natural 
laws that underlie mental action. This 
renders endeavor easier and more effective 
than would be possible without its specific 
knowledge.—All features of life are en¬ 
hanced by the use of the philosophical 
thinking that is embodied in the true 
Mental Science. 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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CONCENTRATED TABLE. 

1— Man is forever a spiritual being. 

2— The Mind is man’s living Instru¬ 
ment, spiritual and real. 

3— To each man his mind seems to be 
himself. 

4— The Mind is the mental man; the 
man who thinks. 

5— All things are first produced in the 
mind. 

6— The body is the external instrument 
of the mind, and reproduces the action of 
its personal thinking. 

7— Man is spiritual in essence but 
mental in action. 

8— Man builds his own body, unbuilds 
it and rebuilds it, according to the state of 
mind that he is in at the time of action. 

9— Minds are one in nature, and fun¬ 
damentally they operate together. 


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10— Every intelligent thought cul¬ 
minates in a Mental Image of the form of 
the action involved. 

11— Mind sees Mental Images, which 
in milder form are called mental pictures. 

12— Images and Pictures correspond 
exactly in character, quality, form, power 
and in all action, to the thoughts that they 
represent. 

13— Fear in the mind is reproduced 
in nervous distress. 

14— Fear in the mind results in sick¬ 
ness, which may culminate in disease, 
either mental or physical. 

15— The mentality is the only phase 
of man that is ever sick; and the body is 
the only part used to express the wrong 
action. 

16— Mental Pictures of fear reflect 
the action of distress in the nerve-centers 
of the body and thus produce sickness 
which may become disease. 


TABLE OF FACTS. 


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17— The range and power of the sub¬ 
conscious mentality is far superior to all 
forms and combinations of external sense- 
action, or sense-consciousness. 

18— The mind of man is a continuous 
state of consciousness that can never cease 
to be, or to know real things and actions. 

19— The cause of disease is first in the 
mind; therefore it is always mental. 

20— The Soul is real, and is never sick 
or deluded. 

21— The mentality is the only source 
of sickness, and the mind, while thinking 
truth, is the only adequate curative 
agency. 

22— The disease of the body always 
corresponds to its cause in the mind. 

23— Curative thought is based upon 
fundamental truth, and is the direct oppo¬ 
site of all thought that can cause disease. 

24— Thoughts of actual truth are su¬ 
perior to those of error, in any form. 


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25— Truth is exact and has no emo¬ 
tional or sensuous forms. It rests in 
reality. 

26— Exact thinking renders Mental 
Healing possible, sure and safe. 

27— The influences of Mental Heal¬ 
ing and the operations of Mental Science 
all operate for the good of mankind. 

28— All features of life are enhanced 
by the use of the philosophical thinking 
that is embodied in the true Mental 
Science. 


III. 


A Study of Reality. 































CHAPTER III. 


REALITY, BEING AND LIFE. 

Reality —that which is, which always 
has been, and to which everything must 
refer for being, life or action, is necessarily 
absolute, unconditioned and ultimate. In 
classification it must come before all else 
in the universe. It is, therefore, the pri¬ 
mordial substance and the ultimate prin¬ 
ciple of everything that can be conceived 
with regard to the entire universe, and in¬ 
cluding all life and action in being. 

Being is the living, conscious, operative 
activity of Reality; or, the active principle 
of reality as exhibited in all life and living 
operations. 

These two features, therefore, should 
receive our first and most thorough con¬ 
sideration in these studies. Without them 
we can do nothing. With a wrong con- 


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ception of them all effort would be worse 
than wasted. 

Before Reality there could not be any¬ 
thing whatever—not even God. Because, 
if He had presence before reality—at a 
time when there was no reality, then He 
certainly was not real, therefore could not 
have been God; while if God were present 
and real then, He must have included, and 
thus made present the all of Reality. If 
we say that a real God was present before 
reality existed, then, we are postulating 
reality before it was present. Rather loose 
logic, this. 

Likewise, before “Being” there could 
not have been Life, or anything which 
could show forth activity as in living, 
being, or doing; because these all presup¬ 
pose an active entity, to be, to live and to 
do. Without being there would be no 
presence and no evidence of action by 
which to determine presence. If there 
were life before Being, it could not be , and 


REALTY, BEING AND LIFE. 


53 


there would not be anything even to be¬ 
come, or to recognize it in its becoming. 
And again our logic ends in confusion. 
To aid in conceiving ideas and forming 
conclusions on these points, we may con¬ 
sider : 

1— Reality, fundamental and absolute; 
containing within its constituency the full 
potentiality of being and living. The in¬ 
telligent power to be and to live , together 
with the necessary consciousness to know. 

2— Being, ultimate and complete; com¬ 
prising the living activity of all Reality 
and, within the possibilities of its activity, 
all life included in a unit of being, which 
is whole. Such Being is necessarily real , 
and such Reality certainly has being. It is 
being, itself. 

3— Life. All true ideas of life must 
rest upon a full conception of Reality and 
Being. To be, is to live; and necessarily 
to be real. Ignore these and you can have 
no conception of Life. 


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An attempt to conceive life by itself 
alone, without these essentials, ends in the 
misconception denominated death, instead 
of a realization of life. That which 
through conception of reality might have 
become an idea known as life, through 
misconception has become a delusive no¬ 
tion called death. 

But this negative absence has no reality 
and no being, not even life, and so it can¬ 
not act. What then, is it ? And what can 
it do or be? To live is to be, and to know 
reality. 

Reality contains the potentiality 
of both being and living. For this reason 
it is the very foundation of Life. Any no¬ 
tion of Life, therefore, that does not con¬ 
tain the full essence of both Being and 
Reality is necessarily a false view of the 
premises, and must end in delusion. The 
opinion is lifeless because unreal, and it 
cannot be true. To be, and to live, is to be 
real. 


REALTY, BEING AND LIFE. 


55 


The Life that embodies Reality 
and proceeds from Being, must contain 
the qualities of both these fundamentals; 
therefore life itself is ultimate as well as 
absolute and all its real features must be 
eternal. Life, therefore, endures forever. 

If the life of ultimate reality and abso¬ 
lute being should come to an end what 
would be the fate of Reality and of Being? 
And what would be left? Being, without 
life and reality could neither know or be 
known; therefore even the false opinion of 
it would quickly vanish. And reality left 
alone, devoid of being and of life, would 
be as near to nothing as we are able to 
conceive. Likewise life, devoid of being 
and of reality would hold no place in con¬ 
sciousness. It could be only an empty 
void in idle thinking. 

Reality, Being and Life, therefore, 
stand or fall together. Where one of 
these is, the others must be, regardless of 
whether they are recognized by the 


56 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

thinker. They are three somewhat dif¬ 
ferent views of the one Entity that is, 
always was, and ever shall be. They rep¬ 
resent varying recognitions in the mind of 
man, of the truth which is and which 
endures. 

The main difference here, is in the 
mind’s recognition of modes and degrees 
of action in the conceptions of substance 
and activity, in connection with what we 
are and what we know. 

This trinity of entities rests abso¬ 
lutely at the base of everything that can 
command the attention of man. They all 
must be rightly considered in every prob¬ 
lem of human life and divine consideration, 
or the whole truth of that problem will not 
be disclosed. 

If these be left out of consideration, 
entirely, confusion will inevitably ensue, 
and no truth will be discovered in that sub¬ 
ject. If but partly recognized, only a lim¬ 
ited power can evolve from the thinking. 


REALTY, BEING AND LIFE. * 57 

Whether the subject be religion, 
philosophy, science in any of its depart¬ 
ments, or any of the minor affairs of 
human life, the full value of these three 
conceptional ideas should be considered; 
for they are the actual fundamentals, and 
without them the subject cannot be ade¬ 
quately examined or its truth determined. 
In right thinking they may readily be 
understood. 

Whatever the subject under exam¬ 
ination, when you can accurately deter¬ 
mine its Reality, the nature of its Being, 
and the character of the Life that is ex¬ 
pressed in its action, you have all the suc¬ 
cessive points in the problem well in hand 
and easy of solution. The truths of Being 
are the things of Reality that manifest in 
the lives of mankind. 


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IV. 


Table of Principles. 







CHAPTER IV. 

THE NATURE AND OFFICE OF 
PRINCIPLE. 

All Reality rests upon Principle. 
Principle is the fundamental activity of 
every entity. Everything that is has its 
own principle. Without its principle no 
entity can endure, or even be. Metaphys¬ 
ical principles are living entities—each on 
its own plane of activity. The principles 
of metaphysics constitute the foundation 
of true Mental Science. To know the 
principles is to comprehend the science and 
understand its usefulness. 

In Metaphysical Philosophy the 
term “principle” is used under the accurate 
definitions of “foundation; origin, source; 
fundamental substance or energy.”* A 
fundamental truth, etc. Every principle, 
therefore is a spiritual entity.t 


♦Webster. 

f“The soul of man is an active principle.”— Tillotson. 



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In its substance every principle re¬ 
lates to Reality. 

In its activity every principle relates 
to Life. • 

In its quality every principle relates 
to the absolute Right, as ultimate Good. 

In its character every principle refers 
directly to Truth. 

Principle is changeless, permanent, 
fundamental. It always was the centre of 
activity, and never can be less. It is eter¬ 
nal reality in active operation. 

Anything short of these ultimate re¬ 
quirements is outside of principle. It may 
be a law, in the sense of “a rule of action,” 
but it is not ultimate enough to be classed 
as principle. 

The principle is the foundation and 
contains all the essentials of the problem. 
When this is fully comprehended in con¬ 
nection with any problem, the mind under¬ 
stands the entire subject in a masterful 
way. 


PRINCIPLE. 


63 


All principles rest in Being and are 
expressed in life. To know the principle 
is to understand the life. Hence these 
studies in principle to be employed as helps 
in understanding. 

TABLE OF PRINCIPLES AND THEIR 
APPLICATIONS IN LIFE. 

Considering, now, in its ultimate sense, 
each of the three elements that have been 
under discussion, it seems reasonable to 
classify as follows: 

1— Reality —that which actually is, in 
a fundamental sense. This is the Prin¬ 
ciple of Being. 

2— Being —that which is fundamental 
to all that can ever be, do, or become 
known. This is the Principle of Life. In 
life Being is reproduced in action that may 
be recognized. Its reality may be known, 
through its activities. 

3— Life —the element of permanent ac¬ 
tivity in being, and the first object of pure- 


64 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

consciousness. This is the Principle of all 
Activity. In the operations of activity, 
you discover the life of every thing. 

4 — Activity —which is fundamental to 
the doing or going forth, of principle in 
being for the manifestation of reality. 
This is the Principle of Action, which is 
the active “doing” of the proposition. 

5— Action —the proceeding into useful 
operation of the fundamental power to do, 
produce, and accomplish results in con¬ 
scious purpose. This is the Principle of 
Creation. 

In the act of creating, the Fundamental 
Intelligence of Being carries out its pur¬ 
pose to reproduce its own essentials of real¬ 
ity, in active operation; and a pure Spirit¬ 
ual Universe of ideas, conceptions and for¬ 
mulated activities is the spontaneous result. 
This is reproduced in the intelligence of 
man. It is the Universe of Being and of 
Reality, in which everything is whole and 
where all is one. 


PRINCIPLE. 


65 


This is the universe of consciousness. 
It is composed of Ideas, all of which are 
both real and pure in every conceivable 
way; and of which we must postulate abso¬ 
lute perfection, as its only possible condi¬ 
tion. It begins with Reality, proceeds 
through Being, by means of real Life, 
which is represented in activity, and mani¬ 
fested through action that culminates in a 
Real Creation. Its substance is activity. 

Up to this point nothing has entered 
into the proposition of a complete, created, 
universe save: 

REALITY 

BEING 

LIFE 

ACTIVITY 
ACTION and 
CREATIVE PURPOSE, 
with a mention of 

CONSCIOUSNESS 
INTELLIGENCE 
REAL IDEAS. 


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All of these rest upon Reality, and 
possess Being. All contain fundamental 
principle and are perpetually active in life. 
Are they, then, also unreal? Which of 
them may either subsist or exist and still 
be imperfect, or unreal ? 

This Universe of Ideas is the pure 
manifestation of Fundamental Reality. 

It comes before man’s conscious recog¬ 
nition through the operation of certain 
activities of Being. These activities are 
mainly: 

CONSCIOUSNESS 

INTELLIGENCE 

UNDERSTANDING 

PURPOSE 

POWER. 

Each of these infinite realities is a prin¬ 
ciple of action, to help in producing the full 
and right “manifestation” of the funda¬ 
mentals of Reality. The substance of all 
of these Realities is activity; and the ele- 


PRINCIPLE. 


67 


mcnt of activity is spirit. As “element” it 
is changeless and eternal activity,— spir¬ 
itual REALITY. 

Consciousness —the power to see and 
to know, is the active, therefore spiritual 
and real, faculty of Being. In correspond¬ 
ing degree it is common to all living en¬ 
tities. It also extends to all planes where 
beings may function. It is the chief activ¬ 
ity of Being. Consciousness, then, is the 
Principle of Intelligence; and it is the chief 
factor in all knowing. 

Intelligence —the power to know and 
to differentiate Ideas, is the Principle of 
Understanding, through which Ideas and 
principles are comprehended and their use¬ 
fulness determined. 

Understanding is the operative func¬ 
tion of Intelligence, brought forward onto 
the plane of the spiritual operations of the 
mind. Here it is the Principle of Pur¬ 
pose; which shows forth in every intent, 
plan and decision for action. 


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When Consciousness, Intelligence 
and Understanding combine and culminate 
in a Purpose to do or perform some deed, 
the element of right in the purpose of the 
plan for operation renders Purpose the 
Principle of Power; and this makes the 
“doing” of the act a full possibility. 

No other power than this is real, efficient 
or enduring. It operates through the in¬ 
nate Force of consciousness, which is fun¬ 
damental to all action. Power, therefore, 
is the Principle of Production, which when 
operating through action culminates in 
Creation. 


PRINCIPLE. 


69 


CONCENTRATED 
TABLE OF PRINCIPLES. 

Reality is the fundamental whole—All 
within Itself. Principle is the active factor 
in all Reality. 

The following are True Principles of 
Being and Activity. All are Spiritual— 
Fundamental—Real. 


To Be To Do. 

Being— principle of Life. 


Life— 
Activity— 
Action — doing; 
the Will to do— 
Consciousness— 
Intelligence— 
Understanding—« 
Purpose— 
Power— 


“ Activity. 

“ Action. 

“ Creation. 

“ Intelligence. 

“ Understanding. 
“ Purpose. 

“ Power. 

“ Production. 


The above are all considered as Fun¬ 
damental Principles, in the true Metaphys- 




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ical philosophy. They are the accepted 
Principles of Mental Science. 

Substance is the foundation on which 
they all rest in Reality. 

Truth is the Spiritual Essence of all 
of them. 

They lead from Reality, through prin¬ 
ciple, to production, as a culminating act. 

The operation of each one leads to a 
development of the succeeding one. 

Each one is dependent for existence 
upon the previous one. 

All lead forward in a line of whole¬ 
ness to culminate in an act of production, 
without which nothing could ever be ac¬ 
complished. In that event the universe 
would be empty, even of worlds. 

These nine principles are the essen¬ 
tials of a philosophical knowledge of 
everything that really is or has being. All 


PRINCIPLE. 


71 


other principles of action rest upon them 
as foundation. No one of these can be 
left out of consideration in any problem 
that is real; therefore to understand a heal¬ 
ing problem, or a process for such purpose 
we must know their activities. 

They comprise all that is necessary for 
the foundation of a universe of intelligent 
understanding in the mind of man. 

In such a universe man may find every¬ 
thing that can be, and through its activ¬ 
ities he may know all that is to be known 
about every real thing. 

But this is all spirit. Nothing mate¬ 
rial has yet been mentioned. The activ¬ 
ity—life—of everything that can be con¬ 
ceived as proceeding from, or as being 
created by or through the active processes 
of any or all of these fundamental prin¬ 
ciples of reality and power, is absolutely 
spiritual in nature, character and sub¬ 
stance. Nothing material bears any rela¬ 
tion whatever to any of them. They pos- 


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sess no physical features or characteristics. 
They cannot be accurately described in 
physical terms, or sensuous phrases. 

Following out from these fundamen¬ 
tals, through the rightful exercise of the 
thinking faculties, an innumerable variety 
of expressive activities, operative acts and 
actions, manifestations of power, and pur¬ 
poseful doing, may be observed. And 
these all go to constitute man’s collective 
Idea of the Universe which he inhabits 
and of which he is a participating feature 
or portion. 

All of these activities are embodied in 
the features and transactions of the daily 
life of each member of the human family, 
and so they are vital in all matters of 
health and healing. They must be con¬ 
sidered in relation to every true healing 
process. This is the reason for explain¬ 
ing them here. 

There are also many principles of ac- 


PRINCIPLE. 


73 


tion that are the foundations of operative 
proceedings in daily life; but every such 
subsidiary principle relates to these fun¬ 
damentals as the source of its power and 
conforms to them in nature and character. 

All Reality is one whole essence. 
The combined action of this one is the 
Universe of Real Things. It has mathe¬ 
matical character, which is expressed in 
its unity, wholeness, identity, etc., all of 
which rest upon truth and become prin¬ 
ciples of operative action. 

In order that an idea or conception of 
a thing shall be real, it must be true; and 
in its truth may always be found an abso¬ 
lute identity that indicates its being. 
Every entity must possess a principle in 
order to be able to act for any purpose. 
Truth itself is a first requisite to the exist¬ 
ence of any entity. 


74 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

SUBSIDIARY PRINCIPLES OF ACTION. 

All of these are Spiritual and Real. 
They are also absolutely essential to all or 
any expression of action in real existence: 

Truth —The absolute quality of being. 
That which actually is what it purports 
to be. 

Identity —The changeless permanence 
of truth. That through which truth may 
always be known at first sight. 

Wholeness —The quality of complete 
inclusiveness, carried to the conception of 
an indivisible one. 

Unity —The final conception of the one 

as THE ALL. 

The Unit —The one itself, qualifying 
as the whole. 

Mathematics —The Spiritual Science 
that differentiates the Unity of Wholeness 
through the Identity of Truth in an abso- 


PRINCIPLE. 


75 


lute exactness that enables the Intelligence 
to comprehend and use the real qualities 
of being. 

Each of these is whole within itself 
and all-inclusive of the others; yet each 
one conveys a different understanding. 
Each bears a definite relation to each of 
the others and thereby each one becomes a 
principle of action to another. This rela¬ 
tion will vary somewhat according to the 
use of ideas that is being made at the 
time, but all are principles and belong to 
the same one. In ordinary description we 
may say that the: 

Principle of Truth is Identity. 

“ Identity is Wholeness. 

“ “ Wholeness is Unity. 

“ “ Unity is the Unit. 

“ “ the Unit is the 

Ultimate wholeness of all, which results 
in the identity of truth. 


76 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

All of this is demonstrated to the un¬ 
derstanding through Mathematics, as the 
science which comprises the activities of 
all these essentials to accurate thinking. 


V. 

The Universe of Reality. 






























CHAPTER V. 

THE UNIVERSE OF REALITY. 

The wholeness of all things com¬ 
bined is the Universe. The method of rea¬ 
soning pursued in the previous chapter 
brings us around the circle, from Truth to 
Wholeness, which is absolute, all-inclusive, 
unconditioned and final. These are the 
qualifications of Mathematics, and this is 
the foundation of all science. The exact¬ 
ness of mathematics, carried into thought 
and speech, requires logic as its right ex¬ 
pression; and in logic we find the mathe¬ 
matical character of the true “word” in 
thought. 

This, then, is the right character of 
both thought and expression for any ac¬ 
tion in true Mental Science. Anything 
called such that falls short of this standard 
requires readjustment in thought and 
method. 


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There is no end to the activities that 
will evolve in the understanding while the 
mind proceeds with its analysis, after con¬ 
ceiving the nature of these principles. In 
this way the Idea of “Universe” becomes 
infinite in man’s conception, and he rises to 
the “seventh heaven” of understanding. 

And still all of it is spirit, and every 
activity involved is a feature of real Being . 

This is the Universe of Realities. 
It has always existed, and will forever con¬ 
tinue in living activity. 

Considered inclusively, it is God, in 
His own home. God made it by perform¬ 
ing the acts of His own divine purpose. 
Man may understand and use it by intelli¬ 
gently thinking its principles. In this he 
may share the active powers of the real 
purpose of the Almighty and rise to a su¬ 
perior understanding. 

This is the series of conceptive real¬ 
ities that true Mental Scientists hold in 


REALITY. 


81 


their consciousness as the actual things of 
creation and the real objects of life. At 
least, we all should comprehend the nature 
of these principles of life and hold fast to 
the understanding. Whatever our faith 
or belief, based upon our present acquire¬ 
ments, may be, this entertaining of real 
ideas and conceptions of truth can only 
uplift. The fullest understanding is that 
which contains the most of truth. 

In every such activity as is here de¬ 
scribed, Mental Scientists see the being 
of the true God; and in every associated 
idea they observe His handiwork. 

Such a Universe is real, absolute, com¬ 
plete, changeless, therefore indestructible. 
It endures forever. In the comprehension 
of it there is no fear, but instead, that peace 
which passeth (the external man’s) under¬ 
standing, and pervades every faculty. 

When rightly comprehended these 
principles are infallible planks that form a 


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platform of true understanding upon 
which we could stand immovable and se¬ 
cure, even though the foundations of the 
earth were upheaved. 

God and his universe within him 
are one and whole; are infinite and eternal. 
We are parts of it all because we are in¬ 
separable from its substance and its reality. 
Whether we recognize it or not; accept it 
or not; will have it so or not, still it holds 
us safe and secure within its infinite sub¬ 
stance. What, then, can harm us? And 
why need we be afraid? The martyrs 
were imbued with this truth—and they 
conquered fear. 

This is the real Universe composed 
entirely of Ideas. It is an Ideal Universe 
because it embodies the ideal conceptions 
of the Infinite Mind. These necessarily 
are all real Ideas. To know these rightly 
is to be able to include their activities in 
our thinking about all affairs. This es¬ 
tablishes the healing power of the mind in 


REALITY. 


83 


scientific accuracy, and gives to Mental 
Science its sound ground for action. 

This reflection of thought-action con¬ 
tains a reproductive feature, in the re¬ 
versal of the mental lines of action in the 
image of the thought. Thus the real and 
enduring Idea of Infinite Qualities, when 
passing through the understanding, reap¬ 
pears in an inverted form, in the more 
external features of the mind of man. 

Here the permanent activity of the Idea 
becomes reversed in its action, and reap¬ 
pears as a thought of man’s own recogni¬ 
tion of the idea. Because of its limitations 
it appears now as a transient and indefinite 
thought, which shows but little power. 

The exercise here of the infinite quali¬ 
ties which inhere within man’s being 
would have enabled the thinker to reverse 
this evidence at sight, as we do with a 
reflection cast in the mirror, and so return 
in understanding to the truth of the Idea 
itself. 


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In this field of the inverted action of 
illusion, however, sense is commonly al¬ 
lowed to predominate; and sense al¬ 
ways reports the inverted evidence of the 
reflection—never the direct action of real¬ 
ity. Thus the inverted evidence takes and 
holds the field, while it is allowed to go 
un judged. 

But this need not be. Every mind 
possesses the full power to understand all 
of these processes, and to reverse all in¬ 
verted action in the mental processes. Thus 
where sense-thinking has produced an in¬ 
verted action that is causing sickness, the 
rightly informed mind can reverse the ac¬ 
tion and reestablish the normal activities 
of life, which will inevitably restore that 
mind to its right condition. This act rep¬ 
resents the natural healing power of Men¬ 
tal Science. 

In this way an entire universe of in¬ 
verted thought-activities has come upon 
the ground of man's understanding; and 


REALITY. 


85 


having become established there as real, it 
occupies the entire attention, with every 
mind which is given over to the evidences 
of sensuous thinking. 

The natural result of adhering to the 
inverted evidence of sense-thinking is that 
the evidence appears in a condensed mate¬ 
rial form which takes the place of actual 
active reality, until nothing else can be 
recognized. All action is now viewed 
through this inverted evidence, and an en¬ 
tire universe of sensuous action and phys¬ 
ical shape, that in the illusion appears to 
be substance, takes form as an appear¬ 
ance. Then the illusion is complete. Here 
all action takes place in what seems to be a 
lawful way. The mind, therefore, finds in 
it what seem to be principles of action and 
they soon become established as such. 

Each one of these, however, when ex¬ 
amined, will show a direct tracing, through 
inverted processes of thinking, back to one 
or more of the fundamental principles of 


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the Universe of reality, which existed be¬ 
fore any of this changing appearance, and 
without which none of the external things 
could have had even appearance. The one 
is a copy of the other, brought about by 
inverted action operating through reflec¬ 
tion; and it is real only as the comparison 
between a reflection and its original sub¬ 
stance. The original must be the real; the 
other one is an inverted appearance. A 
reflected copy cannot come before its 
original substance. 

The actual creation of the first and 
real universe of spirit is explained in the 
account of it as described in Genesis I, and 
up to and including the fifth verse of the 
2nd chapter. Here we may see definitely 
that a purely spiritual process has thus far 
been described. Yet, everything is full and 
complete in all respects. 

True Mental Scientists recognize this 
pure reality as the Universe, and its eter¬ 
nal spirit of truth as God; and they wor- 


REALITY. 


87 


ship accordingly. This is the reason why 
their thinking demonstrates the true heal¬ 
ing power. It is based upon wholeness 
and carries the element of sound health in 
all its operations. 

The duplicate universe of outward 
action is recognized for what it is and dealt 
with accordingly. Its features of apparent 
action are effectively controlled in propor¬ 
tion to the degree of the understanding 
that is exercised in the operations of the 
thinking. 

The apparent principles of physical 
action do not hold good under examination 
and are not satisfactory as finalities. They 
are effective only in the illusive phases of 
life and in connection with inverted action. 
To obtain lasting satisfaction the action 
must be followed back through the inver¬ 
sions, until the real is reached and com¬ 
prehended as the ultimate principle. Then 
the things and affairs of our daily lives are 
rightly understood and may be controlled. 


MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 


The INNUMERABLE ACTIVITIES of the 
Universe of Spiritual Truth are reproduced 
in the seeming universe of inverted reflec¬ 
tion here, in almost an equal number of 
operative actions in thought; and these, in 
turn, through a condensation of their ac¬ 
tion, result in as many physical objects, 
which, to the mind that is thus deluded, 
become the “things” of the world and the 
universe. 

But we can use these adequately for 
all material and outward purposes, here, 
while still knowing and referring back to 
the spiritual as the real, the permanent, 
and so through right understanding draw 
from the fount of reality that energy and 
force so necessary to the accomplishing of 
any real work while we sojourn here. We 
can use our senses and our bodies for 
bodily and personal purposes and use them 
well, but not stop with them as the finali¬ 
ties of our being. As such they cannot act. 

Thus Principle is our only hope, and 


REALITY. 


89 


it becomes our greatest study in the search 
for truth and reality in life. And while 
apparent principles (if we remember their 
inversion and repeat the process) may lead 
us on the way upward, only the realization 
of the true principle in the activity of real¬ 
ity can satisfy the heart. 

Is not this the finding of God, without 
any Graven Image? 

What form of action is superior to 
that of Principle? 




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VI. 

Laws of Activity. 














CHAPTER VI. 

THE RELATION OF LAW TO 
PRINCIPLE. 

Principles are fundamental to all ac¬ 
tivities in the universe. They are primal 
as well as eternal. 

For every principle, there is an ac¬ 
companying Law, which is its correspond¬ 
ing activity in the form of power for ex¬ 
pression. 

A Law expresses the nature and char¬ 
acter of its Principle. In action a law is 
the manifestation of its fundamental 
entity, the Principle. 

There can be no principle without an 
equally definite law, capable of reprodu¬ 
cing its activities and qualities. The Law 
is the Principle in action—the practical 
application of its reality, in active and pur¬ 
poseful life. Every law, therefore, must 
have a principle resting back of it, as its 

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source and also as the foundation of its 
being. 

The ability to distinguish between a 
principle and its law of operation in the 
universe, and to know the office, nature 
and character of each of them, is the 
measure of correct and efficient under¬ 
standing of the deep problems of life, both 
human and divine. To this end it may be 
well to examine the subject of Law some¬ 
what, here, with the view to determine its 
nature, character, office and usefulness, to 
such an extent as may be possible with the 
present state of understanding. 

AS EVERY FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE is 

capable of exhibiting numerous forms of 
activity, each of which is a principle in 
itself, while all are one in the Being of 
principle; so every fundamental law may 
show many forms of lawful expression, 
each of which is, in itself, a subsidiary law 
that independently shows forth the activity 
of its corresponding subsidiary principle, 


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and all of which, collectively, manifest the 
united whole of the original fundamental 
principle of the spiritual entity itself. 

This multiplicity of manifesting ac¬ 
tion, when superficially considered, is the 
chief cause of confusion in mind with re¬ 
gard to entities, reality, and united action 
in reason and understanding. Consider¬ 
ing it as the normal operation of principle 
and law in being and in life, brings for¬ 
ward a harmony of conception of the truths 
involved; and this banishes the confusion. 

First, then, let us note the fact that a 
law is the normal expression of a Principle. 
In this office it must, of course, be like its 
source in every respect. Character, qual¬ 
ity, mode of action, force, power, purpose 
in life and moral status will bear the same 
qualifications as that principle which the 
law is to represent in a reproducing form 
of expression. 

This may help us in determining laws 
as active realities, corresponding to the 


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principles of life and being which they 
always faithfully portray. 

Without the law we should never 
know the principle, because it is too funda¬ 
mental to come immediately before the 
understanding, in this progressive realm 
of experience with affairs which are more 
or less external. The operations of the 
law come before the notice, and these dis¬ 
close the presence of the unseen principle. 

In the action of the law the features 
of the principle itself are somewhat dif¬ 
ferentiated and so are more easily recog¬ 
nized by the mind, which must think in a 
more detailed process than that required 
by the direct perception of the pure spir¬ 
itual intelligence. 

The fundamental Laws that repre¬ 
sent the fundamental principles should be 
first considered and thoroughly under¬ 
stood. These fundamentals are so uni¬ 
versal, all-inclusive and far-reaching in all 
ways, that they necessarily occupy both 


LAW AND PRINCIPLE. 


97 


positions, each one being in one aspect, 
principle, and in another, Law. 

In the sense of being, or “to be” each 
one is a principle; but in the sense of doing 
or “to do” each manifests in the under¬ 
standing as a law of definite action, some¬ 
what as follows: 


TABLE OF LAWS. 


Considered as Expressions of Prin¬ 
ciples. 

REALITY IS ALL WITHIN ITSELF. 
FUNDAMENTAL ENTITY. 


The Act 
To do 


The Action 
To be 


Being— Law Expressing Realty. 
Life— “ “ Being. 


Activity— “ “ Life. 


Action— “ “ Activity. 

Creation— “ “ Action. 

Intelligence— “ “ Consciousness. 


Understanding— “ “ Intelligence. 

Purpose— “ “ Understanding. 

Power— “ “ Purpose. 

Production— “ u Power. 


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These are altogether fundamental, 
whether individually considered as Law or 
as principle. The difference in consider¬ 
ation rests entirely on the views of each as 
“being” or in the sense of “doing.” 

To be is to remain, continue, endure. 
The activity of this idea is Principle. 

To do is to proceed in operative method 
to accomplish a purpose. The action of 
this intent is a Law. 

All laws are modes of action for the 
accomplishing of intelligent purpose. 

Each idea that is rightly formed on a 
basis of principle, expresses a definite law 
of reality. Through this understanding 
of it the conception of the truth involved 
in the subject may be brought into prac¬ 
tical operation. 

There are many modes of this useful 
operation of Law and each one relates to a 
definite principle, either fundamental or 
subsidiary. Each idea of law bears the 
same nature and character as the partic¬ 
ular principle of life which it reproduces. 


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99 


Principles are Infinite Conceptions of 
Reality; and Laws are Infinite Realiza¬ 
tions of the practical application of the 
conceptions in life. 

When a conception of reality in life 
relates or refers to the matter of “being/’ 
in itself, it takes its proper place in the 
understanding as a principle of reality. 
But when the same conception is turned 
in the mind to the practical act of “doing” 
that which the nature of the conception 
indicates as right and wise, it takes the 
somewhat outward form of a law of op¬ 
eration. Thus the same Idea of Reality 
may function in one way as a principle and 
in another as a law, accordingly as it is 
applied in the realm of conceptive under¬ 
standing. “Being” therefore, as before 
stated, is the operation of the infinite idea 
as principle, and “doing” is its operation as 
law. Each is infinite and each requires the 
other. They are a pair of real opposites. 
They are inclusive and interactive. 


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SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BEING. 

Truth is an Idea necessary to the Char¬ 
acter of Being. 

Identity is an Idea necessary to the ac¬ 
curate concept of Being. 

Wholeness is an Idea necessary to a real¬ 
ization of Being as All. 

Unity is an Idea necessary to a concept 
of All-inclusiveness in Being. 

Mathematics, which is a full concept of 
Unity and Wholeness in the Identity of 
Truth in Being. 

These, therefore, are Primal Subsidiary 
Laws expressing the nature and uses of 
the same ideas that have before been con¬ 
sidered as Principles in fundamental being. 

TABLE. 

Identity— the Law of Truth in Reality. 

Truth— “ “ “ Reality in Being. 

Wholeness— “ “ “ Truth in Being. 

Unity— “ “ “ Wholeness in All. 

Unit— “ “ “ Unity or Oneness. 

Mathematics— “ “ “ Identity in Each. 


LAW AND PRINCIPLE. 


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TABLE OF LAWS OF ACTIVITY. 
THE LAW OF EXPRESSION IN LIFE. 
Man— Law Expressing God. 


Mind— 

« 

ft 

Man. 

Thought— 

a 

tt 

Mind. 

Image— 

<t 

tt 

Thought. 

Idea— 

a 

tt 

Understanding. 

Understanding — 

u 

a 

Intelligence. 

Intelligence— 

tt 

tt 

Consciousness. 

Consciousness— 

ft 

tt 

Being. 

Love— 

tt 

tt 

Life. 

Truth— 

n 

a 

Love. 

Fact— 

tt 

ft 

Truth. 

Freedom— 

tt 

tt 

Will. 

Will— 

ft 

a 

Energy. 

Energy— 

tt 

tt 

Force. 

Force— 

tt 

ft 

Power. 

Power— 

ft 

tt 

Strength. 

Justice— 

tt 

tt 

Equity. 

Purity— 

ft 

ft 

Goodness. 

Courage— 

ft 

tt 

Confidence. 

Trust— 

ft 

ft 

Faith. 

Rest— 

ft 

tt 

Peace. 


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It is an exceedingly good mental ex¬ 
ercise to think out carefully and fully the 
nature and character of each of these con¬ 
ceptions of action, and their relation to 
each other, which will also show why they 
are coupled together for the purpose of 
understanding the problems of life. 

As a principle of activity and purpose 
each one of these entities in the universe 
and elements of Being is whole within it¬ 
self. 

As a law of action and of the doing 
of deeds in life, each one has as many 
phases of application of its powers as there 
are directions in which to turn in daily life 
for its purposes of expression—an almost 
unlimited number. 

In this study each phase or mode of 
action that rests upon any one of the real 
principles is a working law of life; and 
whatever it may otherwise be called it may 
be considered as such a law, in nature and 
character. This will enable us to better 


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103 


understand the phases of action in life that 
we constantly meet, and so increase in a 
genuine way our powers for the control of 
circumstances. In these ways knowledge 
of law is a powerful help toward right 
living. 

The principle is the fundamental 
reality . 

The law is its natural expression . 

Think this out thoroughly, as regards 
the nature and character of each element 
of action or idea met with in experience, 
and you will be able to determine what is 
principle and what is law in life, and to 
apply a suitable name to each feature for 
purposes of classification and of useful 
application. 

Principle and Law comprise the uni¬ 
verse and rule all action within it. This is 
the foundation of all true understanding of 
action in life. 


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We should learn at the fountain-head 
of understanding, which is expressed in 
Principle and Law considered as entities of 
action. 


VII. 


Symbolism 















CHAPTER VII. 

SYMBOLISM IN MENTAL SCIENCE. 

There is a symbolism in all thought- 
action, by means of which the nature and 
character of ideas are accurately expressed 
to the understanding of intelligent minds. 
Through the natural operations of this 
symbolizing action the character and quali¬ 
fications of ideas are reproduced in forms 
that convey to the eye of the mind the ac¬ 
tivities of the idea under observation, in 
terms that can be completely understood. 

A mental symbol is a picture of the ac¬ 
tion of an Idea. The different activities 
that comprise the substance of an intelli¬ 
gible idea combine in the conscious under¬ 
standing and produce a form that is visible 
to the psychic sight of the intelligent indi¬ 
vidual. To those who are rightly in¬ 
formed, this form conveys a conscious im¬ 
pression that discloses the activities them¬ 
selves, and gives accurate knowledge of the 


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transaction of which that idea is the base 
of action. 

In this general way the mind of man 
has a complete system of symbolizing 
thought, in which the subtile action of 
every conception is reproduced in other 
terms, to call forth all the powers of obser¬ 
vation and to produce a wholeness of com¬ 
prehension. Rightly understood, there¬ 
fore, this feature of the mind’s symbolizing 
of mental action is of very great impor¬ 
tance to everyone. 

In real thinking, no matter what the 
subject, the activities comprising the per¬ 
manent spiritual entities and ideas upon 
which the mind draws for facts, knowledge 
and power in its investigation, are put 
forth from the fundamental spiritual real¬ 
ity of the subject, in a symbolized form 
that includes the quality, character, essence 
and nature of each activity involved in the 
thinking. 

In this it would seem that the soul ex- 


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109 


presses its knowledge of the spiritual facts, 
in a symbol of their action; and the mind, 
interpreting the action, forms its concept 
of the idea by what it psychically sees in 
the symbol. In such ways the soul may, 
and evidently does, inform the mind 
(which is itself operating on the next outer 
plane of life) of principles and activities 
that are too occult for the mind itself to 
recognize directly or even to apprehend at 
all through its own powers when unaided 
by finer faculties than the purely mental. 

The action of this grade of the feature 
of symbolism is subconscious to the men¬ 
tality. It works strongly in dreams either 
on the soul plane of spiritual activity, or 
the plane of the mind itself. It may also 
work out through the lower order of sense- 
mentality and give images of sensuous 
thinking; but these have no basis in reality, 
no spiritual nature, therefore are transient 
and altogether illusive. 

Real symbolism is spiritual-mental, 


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and in its highest action relates to whole¬ 
ness of life in being, which is real. 
Through no other means than the higher 
symbolism of thought-action can the mind 
gain direct or accurate information of the 
truths of that life which is above the 
sensuous action of the animal-human 
plane. 

The symbolizing of the thought- 
operations is not always recognized by the 
thinker. In sensuous thinking it is never 
observed; but it is always present and it 
acts in all features of the memory. 

It is the mental picture, which forms 
through the symbolizing action in the sub¬ 
conscious process, that is registered as a 
memory of the transaction. 

The mind retains this picture, by means 
of some unknown subconscious process; 
and the act of memory consists in psy¬ 
chically looking over the accumulation and 
selecting the memory-picture that gives the 
required information. 


SYMBOLISM. 


hi 


The soul records only transactions and 
acts of a spiritual nature and such as relate 
to truth, fact, and reality in the experience 
of the life of the real individual. 

The mind, however, records all the fea¬ 
tures of its life, both real and apparent. 
These may be referred to at any time, de¬ 
pending only upon the clearness of the 
record and the free operation of the mem¬ 
ory in searching for it. 

The highest order of thought enters 
the clearest record, and this will be the 
most enduring. 

Records of absolute truth endure for¬ 
ever and their accumulation constitutes 
the “growth” of the soul. 

Records of such sense-action as has no 
spiritual basis, but relates to the illusive 
action of a life of supposed separateness of 
all qualities, are fainter, as they have no 
base in reality, and there is nothing to en- 


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dure. It is easy for the mind to forget 
action of this sort. 

Reality endures, but illusion soon fades 
from view. 

When the mind operates with regard 
to sensuous objects in daily life on the 
material and personal plane, it forms Men¬ 
tal Pictures of its doings. These conscious 
pictures settle into subconscious Images of 
the action involved. 

Considered psychically, this consti¬ 
tutes the Symbology of the mind under the 
influence of sensation. The mental picture 
may fade from conscious remembrance but 
the subconscious Image remains as a 
symbol of the action of the experience. 

Either the conscious picture or the sub¬ 
conscious image may, while it continues in 
action, act as a direct cause of sickness, in 
any of its numerous forms. 

The distress of a scene of accident or 
an experience of fear, fright, scare or men- 


SYMBOLISM. 


1 13 

tal shock, is embodied in the picture or 
image which thereby becomes to the mind 
a symbol of injury or death, as the case 
may be. 

The action of this mental distress is 
agitated, inharmonious and tends toward 
destruction of tissue. 

It reflects in those nerve-centers that 
correspond in the physical system to the 
mental functions of life that were included 
in the disturbing experience. 

These nerve-centers contain a finely 
constructed and extremely sensitive nerve- 
fluid. 

This fluid is so sensitive that it can be 
impressed by the action of a thought. 
Mental action reproduces its form and ac¬ 
tivity in the central nerve-fluid. 

The distressful agitation of the 
thought-picture or image is thus repro¬ 
duced in the nerve-fluid and extended 


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through the parts of the nervous system 
that relate to that nerve-center, and from 
those nerves to organic function and phys¬ 
ical tissue. 

The fear reproduces as pain, which cor¬ 
responds in agitation to the fear, or the 
expectation of injury that is indulged by 
the thinking mind. 

Thus a thought can reproduce its ac¬ 
tion and a mind reenact a distressful expe¬ 
rience through pain, destruction of tissue 
—nervous, organic and physical, and in the 
form of sickness or disease corresponding 
to the thoughts of fear indulged by the 
mind. 

Mental Science, through a knowledge 
of the real laws of life, can counteract these 
harmful conditions. By reversing the ac¬ 
tion it stops the continuance of the impres¬ 
sion upon the nerve-center, and establishes 
an opposite influence, which is caused to 


SYMBOLISM. 


US 

extend throughout the nervous system and 
restore the normal condition to every part. 

This is a genuine cure by Mental 
Science. It is a perfectly natural opera¬ 
tion. It entirely removes the picture or 
image by destroying its action, and so dis¬ 
poses of the cause effectually and perma¬ 
nently. 

The operation is definite and exact, 
therefore undeniably scientific, though 
mental instead of directly material. 

No material process can accomplish it. 

Medical or surgical systems can only 
destroy the nerves and nerve-centers, thus 
annihilating their usefulness. This is the 
only action of drugs where applied for a 
cure of such cases. The action is derog¬ 
atory. It partly kills but does not cure. 

In such instances the cause remains in 
the mind, is still active and may work it¬ 
self out through other nerve channels, pro- 


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ducing other and perhaps worse conditions. 
This happens every day, under medical 
practice. It is the natural result of an im¬ 
perfect system. 

The cause is mental and it should have 
a mental remedy. 

Mental Science offers such through 
the Specific Image System of thought. 


VIII. 


Table of Maxims. 













CHAPTER VIII. 

TABLE OF MAXIMS. 

Reality comprises whatever actually is. 

That which actually is must have 
Being, and be real. 

Being is whatever is real and also lives. 

That which lives possesses Reality 
and has Being. 

To be is to live and to know reality. 

Knowledge independent of Reality is 
only a delusion. 

Real knowing leads to true living. 

That which does not know anything 
real cannot either live or have being. 

That which knows, lives through 
thinking the details of its Consciousness of 
Reality. 

In the Being of man the mind is the 
thinker. 


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No thought, no knowledge, and even¬ 
tually no life, because of the absence of 
consciousness of reality. 

Consciousness of reality implies liv¬ 
ing and knowing; and all of these prove the 
presence of Being. 

To live and to know is to be conscious. 

To be, implies living, knowing and being 
conscious. 

The substance of the real is Reality. 

There is no God outside of Reality. 

The activity of reality constitutes the 
Universe. 

Man is the Epitome of the Universe. 

Something from Nothing is impos¬ 
sible. 

That which comes forth from Reality 
must be real. 

That which is not entirely real has 
not even existence. 


MAXIMS. 


121 


That which lives, knows and is con¬ 
scious in the activities of reality, can pos¬ 
sess no quality but good. 

Reality knows no appearance. It is. 

Appearance has no being. Its ap¬ 
parent presence is a delusion. 

That which has no reality and is not 
good has no being, and is not anything 
whatever. 

Nothing is no thing. It has no pres¬ 
ence. 

Something cannot be produced from 
nothing. 

The substance of “nothing” is va¬ 
cancy. 

The action of sense is illusion to the 
mind. 

The real action of the mind is a spir¬ 
itual comprehension. 


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The soul is a spiritual entity, whole and 
real. 

The soul is the individualized expres¬ 
sion of the pure spirit. 

The part bears the quality of the whole. 

All of the parts comprise the perfect 
whole. 

Reality always was whole and change¬ 
less. 

Good is the only quality possible to 
wholeness. 

That which is not good has no whole¬ 
ness or reality, therefore is neither in being 
nor existence. 

Evil has no substance, quality, 
reality, wholeness or being; and without 
these it can have no presence anywhere, 
at any time. It is not an entity. 

The Idea of Evil is a delusion to the 
mind. 


MAXIMS. 


123 

The presence of reality, which is good, 
disproves evil. 

Sickness is a result of the delusions of 
ignorance. 

Disease is dis-ease (un-ease) in the 
mind—Not an entity. 

Disease is a lack and an absence of real¬ 
ity, not a presence. 

Disease possesses no real quality, and 
cannot be actually known. 

The substance and presence of disease 
are illusion. They appear only in sense 
action. 

There are no spiritual diseases. 

Spiritual intelligence knows no 
Disease, at any time. 

Disease is of the mind, only. 

The body reflects and reproduces the ac¬ 
tion of the mind. 


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As the mind thinks, so the body 
moves or acts. 

Disease proceeds only from incorrect 
thinking. 

The soul is never sick. It is forever 
whole, sound and well. 

The spirit is a changeless and perma¬ 
nent entity. 

Truth contains no error. It is always 
pure. 

Of two contradictory opposites or state¬ 
ments both cannot in any event be true. 

Right is the exact truthfulness of 
reality. 

The right of one is the right in all, of 
being and of life. 

From the being of God only good can 
come or be. 

Since God is all, the whole, and is 
good, there can be no evil. 


MAXIMS. 


125 


Darkness is an absence —no light 
present. It vanishes when the light 
arrives. 

Evil is a vacancy in the mind — 
nothing. It ceases to appear when under¬ 
standing takes the field. 

Consciousness of the goodness of real¬ 
ity annihilates even the appearance of Evil. 

Devil is a personification of the imag¬ 
ination of evil. A delusion, only. 

All propositions of Truth are con¬ 
sistent with each other. They may be 
combined in a whole statement, which will 
be entirely real. 

Reality is intrinsically one and 
whole. 

There are no separate parts or pieces 
of that which is one. 

When the mind cannot be entered 
with a harmful idea, the body cannot be 
reached or entered by its derogatory action. 


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The Idiot has immunity from disease in 
proportion to the degree of his mental ob¬ 
livion. 

Harmony of thought-action will repro¬ 
duce in corresponding harmonious condi¬ 
tions of the body. 

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is 
he.” 

“Like produces like,” under all circum¬ 
stances. 

Poisons are not true remedies—they 
only change abnormal action to other ab¬ 
normalities. 

Extremes are abnormal and undesir¬ 
able. 

The “happy medium” is the best action. 

In Calmness rests power. 

An ounce of truth is greater than a 
pound of error. 

Creation was produced complete with- 


MAXIMS. 


127 


out evil, sin, devil or disease. See Genesis 
5 * 

A good influence can only produce 
good results. 

Evil cannot proceed from good, be¬ 
cause it is not contained therein. 

There is no “source” of evil or Dis¬ 
ease. 

Death is only a passing from one state 
of Consciousness to another. 

To realize Wholeness as a state of 
being is to grow more whole in the appre¬ 
ciation of life. 

Wholeness of understanding breeds a 
healthy realization in action. 

Wholeness and Health are synony¬ 
mous. 

Wholeness, soundness and health are 
the qualities of real life. 

All that really has Being is one and is 
whole. 


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The essence, substance, nature and 
character of that which is one are alike 
and equal. 

Only that which has no being can ap¬ 
pear imperfect. 

Imperfection is a qualification of noth¬ 
ingness, only, not of reality. 

Reality is necessarily perfect. 

There is nothing in Being or in Exist¬ 
ence except reality. 




IX. 

Rules for Living. 



CHAPTER IX. 

RULES FOR LIVING. 

Probably everyone supposes that he 
knows how to live; and advice from others 
on the subject would perhaps seem super¬ 
fluous. The results, however, of personal 
efforts in that line often show deficiencies 
which suggest the advisability of some def¬ 
inite thinking, that may establish safe and 
sound ways of doing, in order to succeed 
generally; and that may be formulated 
into simple rules for others to follow. 
Wisely directed, such a course might 
greatly help many who really do need such 
advice and suggestion; and it cannot harm 
anyone. 

In presenting these few suggestions for 
action the writer is mainly drawing upon 
the experiences of study and observation 
in the practice of Mental Science, where 
the actions of daily life continually come 
forward for observation and adjustment. 

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MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 


Based on this experienced thinking “Men¬ 
tal Science’" offers herein a few ideas for 
the consideration of the general reader. 

GENERAL CONSIDERATION. 

In every community each individual is 
one among many, all of whom have definite 
requirements of their own lives. How to 
adjust oneself to all of the others, there¬ 
fore, becomes an early consideration in the 
problem of living one’s own life, as an indi¬ 
vidual member of a race of people. 

RULES. 

1— Consider carefully the actual re¬ 
quirements of your life—for comfort, 
growth, usefulness and success. 

2— Recognize the fact that not every 
wish, whim, or desire of the personal na¬ 
ture is actually a requirement in your life. 

3— Recognize that the principle of 
Right is universal, and continuous in its 
operations. 


RULES FOR LIVING. 


133 


4— Consider well the rights of others, 
in relation to your own requirements. He 
who aids others helps himself. 

5— Recognize “quality” as the chief 
consideration in every act or proposition 
for action in life. 

6— Carefully estimate the probable 
outcome, to yourself and in the community, 
of any specific action, before starting it on 
its course. It is easier to withhold than to 
recall. 

7— Avoid anger or heated discussion; 
the weakest party always gives way first. 
The fire of love reduces anger to the 
liquid form, where it becomes innocuous. 

8— Look every proposition over care¬ 
fully, from its earliest inception to its ulti¬ 
mate possibility in realization. 

9— When doubt prevails, defer action 
and await the inner developments. The 
atmosphere of doubt, obstructs the mind. 


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10— With any serious proposition 
wait and sleep over it. The mind works 
out such questions subconsciously during 
sleep, and may determine for you the char¬ 
acter of the action involved, perhaps in a 
dream. When the senses withdraw, the 
soul inspires the mind. 

11— When choosing between any two 
equally feasible lines of action, always 
choose the one that offers the most good to 
the community. The good of all is for the 
best good of each and every one. 

12— The good act is the right act, al¬ 
ways ; and the right act is invariably the 
wise action in life. Be wise! 

13 — No matter what the seeming in 
sense observation, the “good” and the 
“right” will eventually prevail. “The mills 
of the gods grind slowly, yet they grind 
exceeding small.” Do right! 

14— Of any action not yet determined 
expect the right and desirable result. 


RULES FOR LIVING. 


135 


15— Never realize mentally, as being 
accomplished, that which is wrong or un¬ 
desirable. The mind, by thinking, pro¬ 
duces its own results. 

16— The action of thought transfers 
psychically from any one mind to any num¬ 
ber of other minds; therefore, choose care¬ 
fully every thought. 

17— Personalities act according to the 
impulse of the thought-action received. 
As one thinks, forcefully, so others act; 
therefore guard all your thinking and con¬ 
sider all possible results. Be cautious! 

18— The optimistic view of a subject 
that is right, wise and desirable tends to¬ 
ward a mental realization of its accom¬ 
plishment, and helps powerfully to bring it 
into fruition; therefore: Cultivate the op¬ 
timistic view of every question. Be ex¬ 
pectant ! 

19— The pessimistic view on any ac¬ 
tion that is being considered, obstructs the 


136 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 


action of other minds as regards its accom¬ 
plishment, renders one’s own influence in 
favor of it nil and tends toward its destruc¬ 
tion. Hence: Avoid pessimism and doubt. 

20— The optimistic attitude of the 
mind has built the world, in-so-far as it is 
adjusted to correct human living. There¬ 
fore : Be optimistic and so aid in the build¬ 
ing and maintaining of it. 

21— The realizing (making real in 
conception) attitude of optimism leads to 
the producing of the thing rightly desired, 
through the act of spiritually seeing it as 
already accomplished in the higher phases 
of life, and only requiring to be external¬ 
ized, here. Hence: Cultivate optimistic 
realization of the right. Know that 
right is. 

22 — The non-seeing attitude of pes¬ 
simism recognizes no “higher” phase of 
life, and so does not believe that anything 
not controllable through matter or sense 
can be accomplished. Have faith in reality 


RULES FOR LIVING. 


137 


and abolish pessimism. He who believes 
in nothing, comes to nothing. 

23— The true optimist is by nature a 
spiritual philosopher, and has faith in real¬ 
ity. The actual pessimist is a materialist 
and doubts everything, even himself. His 
confidence rests in nothingness. Put no 
trust in the negative reasonings of the Pes¬ 
simist. He is always wrong, as regards 
reality or the right. 

24— Be optimistic toward all that is 
right. What the mind realizes in its right 
thinking, the world bestows. 

25— When right purpose is the motive 
impulse, the mind can find a way and will 
evolve the power to accomplish anything 
normal in human life. Good judgment is 
the guiding influence in this as in all 
things human. Hence: Judge carefully 
every proposition that arises. 

26— The mind of man is spiritual in 
nature and divine in essence, but on this 


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external plane it is operating in a human 
phase of life; therefore: Consider the 
“spiritual” as the base of its operations, 
and human affairs will be rightly adjusted. 
Trust the spiritual mind. Its ways are 
always the ways of Wisdom. 

27— Wisdom may be exercised by the 
mind. It comes only through spiritual per¬ 
ception, however, and will be found only 
in the realm of the spiritual phase of the 
mind, where the true spirit, individualized 
as the soul, gives forth its pure under¬ 
standing to the mind, for use in the world. 
To attain Wisdom, aspire to spiritual 
understanding. 

28— Each one's own soul is his “Guar¬ 
dian Angel.” Hence: To be Wise, trust 
the intuitions of the voice of the soul. It 
never errs. 

29— The soul and the higher mentality 
often speak clearly to the mind in symbolic 
dreams, during sound sleep. If the nature 


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of the action seen in the symbolism be care¬ 
fully examined, the information conveyed 
may be received, interpreted and under¬ 
stood. Therefore: Search the subcon¬ 
scious reality of life for true information. 
Analyze the action and trust the clear im¬ 
pressions. 

30— Establish in your own life inde¬ 
pendence of action, so far as it is consistent 
with the full rights of others. Wisdom, 
alone, should dictate here. Selfish inde¬ 
pendence is foolishness 

31— Be confident of sufficient power 
to accomplish right results in any just en¬ 
deavor. “The gods help those who help 
themselves,” but only when they do the 
work of the gods. 

32— The powers of the mind are un¬ 
limited in human endeavor, because they 
extend to the realm of spirit, in divine real¬ 
ity, for a source of supply. The divinely 
directed mind is invincible. Trust the un¬ 
limited. 


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33— No one can be responsible for all 
affairs in life. To each there falls some 
especial care, responsibility and duty to the 
whole. Look conscientiously for that 
which devolves upon you and then do your 
duty well. 

34— Watch for the right opportunity 
to aid those who actually need and deserve 
assistance. By aiding these you help the 
whole and thus bring real blessings upon 
yourself. As we do to others, so others 
will do to us. 

35— Thought is mirrored in the action 
of life. Selfishness reflects in ugly lines of 
contracted desire that withholds from 
others even that which is their own by 
every right of being and of life. Love to 
all reflects as freedom, in the joy of living 
for others in conjunction with ourselves, 
and recognizing the needs of all. The 
fruits of your choice are within your own 
grasp. Choose! 


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36— Live today what you would re¬ 
member tomorrow. 

37— No one is yet perfect in develop¬ 
ment. Have charity for all and lend a 
helping hand. 

38— The divine spark of real life lies 
deep within the bosom of every one who 
still breathes the rhythm of human exist¬ 
ence. In thinking of the deeds of anyone's 
life recognize the nature of that divine and 
infinite spark; then your thought becomes a 
breath that will fan the spark again into 
the fire of true life. This may regenerate 
even an almost lost soul. It will count as 
a blessing to you. Be merciful, as well as 
just. 

39— See in others that which you 
would have present within yourself. It is 
there, and when you look deep enough you 
will see it; for all belong to the one 
which is whole. Recognizing it there will 
help to realize it—when lo! it is with you. 
Reality is always everywhere. 


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40— Whatever a man thinks, continu¬ 
ously, that will he become. Think that 
which you would be. This is the law of 
human life. 

41— That which one thinks of in the 
highest terms of his comprehension be¬ 
comes his God. Study to think, under¬ 
standing^, of true quality, essential good¬ 
ness, purity and truth; then your God Idea 
will include these essentials of real being, 
and they will shine forth in the actions 
of your life. See goodness and right in 
being, and you will express them in living. 

42— Do all things in moderation. It 
is the excesses in living that produce most 
of the harm. “J ust enough,” of any action 
common to life, and at suitable times, is 
always beneficial. Other than this is harm¬ 
ful. Avoid it. 

43— Seek to know nature's ways, both 
mental and physical, and adjust as nearly 
as may be to those ways in all the afifairs of 
daily life. 


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44— Eat moderately but sufficiently 
for the occasion, of plain substantial food, 
of the best quality and in perfect condition. 

45— Seek to avoid incongruous mix¬ 
tures of inharmonious ingredients at the 
same meal. The processes of digestion are 
largely chemical, the physical action being 
directed by the mind, subconsciously, and 
according to chemical laws that have been 
established by the mind under subcon¬ 
scious knowledge. 

46— Nature never calls for alcoholic 
drinks or for drugs, as food or nourish¬ 
ment. Any seeming call of this kind is the 
result of abnormal desire or appetite. 
Avoid all unnatural ingredients as food or 
drink. Live naturally in all ways. 

47— Sleep sufficiently to be able to ap¬ 
preciate the joys of living, during your 
waking hours. 

48— “Cleanliness is next to Godli¬ 
ness,but it comes first, not last. Keep 


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yourself clean and you will put Godless¬ 
ness to shame. He who would be clean 
in body must first be clean in mind and in 
heart. A clean heart cleanseth all actions. 

49— Breathe fresh (natural) air as 
much of the time as possible. But do not 
become a “fresh air fiend.” Do nothing 
“fiendishly,” but do all naturally and mod¬ 
erately. One person does not need “all out 
doors” in which to breathe. When he 
thinks rightly, an open window will bring 
to him more of air and its elements than 
his lungs can dissect and appropriate. 

50— Contentment in mind brings one 
near to nature’s laws in all phases of liv¬ 
ing. Therefore, trust and wait in patience, 
and with expectation. The universe event¬ 
ually comes to him who rightly expects. 

51— Be alert, but be content with the 
results of nature’s ways. No man can 
outdo nature. 

52— Nature is the subconscious phase 


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of the mind. It operates in psychic activ¬ 
ity, and for each individual it begins with 
the building of the unborn body. It is 
thereafter the continual builder and re¬ 
pairer of the physical structure. Trust 
the subconscious impressions of the mind; 
they are always right. 

53— “Be not anxious for the morrow,” 
but be cautious and wise in your dealings 
and provide, judiciously, for the future 
that you have a right to expect, and for 
those who must depend upon you. Then 
you can proceed in trust and in confidence. 

54— Let no day's sun descend without 
some good deed done to some one who 
needs it. An aspiring prayer of faith, for 
many or for all, is a fitting closing act of a 
day well spent. 












Rules for Character. 



CHAPTER X. 

RULES FOR CHARACTER. 

In the scheme of life for the individual 
the conception of Character should re¬ 
ceive more than a mere mention. There 
should be a consideration based upon fun¬ 
damental principles of both life and being. 
The character of the individual is of espe¬ 
cial importance to each and to all of the 
Community to which he temporarily be¬ 
longs, as well as to the Race of which he 
is a permanent, individual unit. 

It is an established fact of human exist¬ 
ence that Character repeats itself in action. 
The principles of being and of life that 
are embodied in the character of an indi¬ 
vidual are certain to appear in his think¬ 
ing and to reappear in his outward actions. 
The action of a thought extends by re¬ 
flection to the general psychic atmosphere, 
at least of the community, and becomes an 

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influence to the minds of others. The most 
sensitive minds receive the keenest im¬ 
pressions ; and so the most useful members 
of the community may be influenced in the 
direction of the thought indulged. Char¬ 
acter, then, becomes of vast importance, 
not only to the individual possessor but to 
the public at large and in every organized 
effort for advancement extending even to 
the personal interests of every individual. 

On this subject also Mental Science has 
a few suggestions, evolved through both 
experience with and study of the laws that 
regulate action in the universe. 

RULES. 

1 — True Character is based upon the 
permanent laws of Right, Justice and 
Truth that pervade all real being. In es¬ 
tablishing character for yourself, consider 
each of these principles, and its relation 
to all that live. Truth for one is truth 
for all. 

2— The forming of your character 


RULES FOR CHARACTER. 151 

should include due consideration of the 
right attitude toward others, as well as 
your influence upon them through future 
expression of the chosen elements of char¬ 
acter. Human relations should be equal. 

3— Character should be so established 
that it may be expressed in action, in ways 
that others who think fairly and intelli¬ 
gently can understand. 

4— In a world of such varied accom¬ 
plishments as this, all cannot think alike 
and so there would be some that would fail 
to recognize even the best of intentions. 
Consequently: Let your best understand¬ 
ing of the Absolute Right stand as the 
base of character, in each effort. When 
thus rightly founded those who differ must 
grow to the higher comprehension. 

5— When once established on a basis 
of correct understanding, let your charac¬ 
ter remain steadfast. Change only for a 
well marked advance to still higher ground 
of understanding. 


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6 —Elements of character that 
should always be considered, are: 
TRUTHFULNESS. 

RIGHT. 

GOODNESS. 

PURITY. 

SINCERITY. 

STEADFASTNESS. 

EQUALITY. 

JUSTICE. 

INTEGRITY. 

COURAGE. 

CONSTANCY. 

SYMPATHY. 

RESPONSIVENESS. 

FAITHFULNESS. 

CHARITY. 

MERCY. 

KINDNESS. 

CONFIDENCE. 

TRUST. 

FAITH. 

ASPIRATION. 

To these add any similar elements that 


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mean to you a true love of the Right and 
the Real. 

7 — Be strictly honest in every trans¬ 
action, including yourself and your own 
rights in the consideration, as an equality 
of justice. 

8 — Let the world see by your actions 
that you are sincere in attitude, faithful to 
duty, and constant in trust. In due time 
these qualities always bring their own 
reward. 

9 — Consider well your own present 
shortcomings in any element of character 
and quickly remedy the deficiency. None 
are ever entirely perfected in well-doing or 
absolutely perfect in character. 

10 — Be frank and open in your deal¬ 
ings with others, so far as is their right; 
not imparting, however, unnecessary infor¬ 
mation that does not concern them. 
Frankness is always appreciated, but its 
rights are not always properly respected. 


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In some instances, others have yet to de¬ 
velop. Be wise as well as frank, but be 
honest with all. 

11— See the best side and the highest 
qualities that you can in each one. This 
will always help to raise the standard for 
both parties. The whole of goodness is 
hidden within each soul. Responsiveness 
of each to the other will disclose the 
measure. 

12— When affairs appear to go 
wrongly search, earnestly, for the better 
qualities within the transaction, while 
looking also for the points that need ad¬ 
justment. Access to the higher elements 
involved will aid greatly in the lower ad¬ 
justment of affairs of external life. Char¬ 
acter will be a guiding influence, here, and 
its strength a powerful aid. 

13— Let your heart go forth to others, 
either individually or collectively as the 
case may be, in gratitude for helpful ac¬ 
tion, appreciation of efforts to better 


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affairs or conditions, and sympathy in 
troubles that may come to them. These 
elements of true feeling always meet with 
a generous response from those who have 
developed worthiness and will aid in de¬ 
veloping appreciation with all others. 

14— In all association with others, 
strive so far as any actions of your own 
are concerned, to be fully worthy of the 
highest and purest appreciation that the 
best of them can give. True worthiness 
will call it forth and you will benefit by 
it even though you may not directly see 
or hear of the verdict in your favor. The 
best that you can do will fit in, here. 
Try it. 

15— Warm your heart in the fire of 
love toward everything that is good, pure, 
and true in life. Nothing does the human 
being so much good in life as to rightly 
love something real and true. It calls 
into operative action the best and purest 
feeling, and develops true confidence. 


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16 — Love is the response of the heart to 
the mind’s appreciation of quality; and 
quality is that which determines Character. 
Love quality in everything and your char¬ 
acter cannot go astray. 

17— Love begets harmony in all the 
appreciative features of thought; and har¬ 
mony determines the quality of every emo¬ 
tion. Hence: Harmonize your thinking 
about others, and about all that is real, and 
the quality of your love will show forth in 
pure Character. 


Rules for the Home. 




CHAPTER XI. 

RULES FOR THE HOME. 

Home is the most important place in the 
world, for every right-minded person— 
man, woman or child; consequently no ef¬ 
fort should ever be spared to make home 
the most familiar, the best understood and 
the dearest loved spot on earth, to every 
member of the family. 

All are, of course, familiar with this 
idea, and everybody has heard both the 
rhymes of the poet and the reasonings of 
the philosopher in special favor of the 
home. Yet home seems often to be lightly 
considered; and many times we hear of its 
being used in ways that show little appre¬ 
ciation of its holy privileges. 

Perhaps a more definite form of think¬ 
ing about home and its natural advantages 
might help to keep a better appreciation of 
it alive in the minds of our citizens. 

In writing these lines the fact is not 

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entirely overlooked that very many points 
of duty and endeavor arise that must take 
the citizen from what has been home to 
him, and perhaps without its being feasible 
for him to at once establish other home 
relations. Still there is something about 
the former home site, associations and rela¬ 
tions that can never be entirely forgotten 
or supplanted by other surroundings. And 
this is what has made it home, and what, 
it is claimed, will cause it to remain in the 
memory as the home of associations that 
are dear beyond comparison. 

The thought of remembrance of a home 
that has been satisfactory in these ways is 
perhaps one of the greatest, if not the very 
greatest of influences against wrong doing, 
and in favor of the right in life. 

Home is not alone a place of continued 
resort but also of an association with those 
whom we love; with those of our own 
group in bonds of mutual relationship and 
affection, and who by birth and continued 
association are dearer to us in so many 


RULES FOR THE HOME. 161 

ways than we are prone to consider those 
whom we meet less frequently. 

Therefore, when thinking of home we 
should give full consideration to the graces 
and accomplishments of its members, our 
equals in all its rights and to whom also 
it is home. 

To the end that those of us who have 
homes and those who expect to establish 
such places of permanent resort may bet¬ 
ter concentrate our views and ideas of 
home life, so as to make the home a suc¬ 
cess and an added joy to living, Mental 
Science offers a few appreciative thoughts, 
as follows: 

RULES. 

1— To such extent as may be possible 
cultivate affection and love for your own 
relatives, as living participants in the home 
relations, enjoyments and rights. 

2— Love should not be narrowed in any 
way, or withdrawn from the rest of the 
world in order to maintain the home rela- 


162 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

tions. The nearer it comes to a universal 
appreciation of quality and character, the 
better can it be realized at home. And the 
home affections may be all the stronger 
because of a further cultivation of these 
qualities outside of home. 

But the members of the united family 
at home would seem to hold prior claims 
according to their own worthiness, and 
long continued association should prove to 
be our strongest attraction. 

3— Avoid the thought of ownership or 
special rights over or regardless of the 
other members of the family. Such 
thought and feeling always chafes and may 
result in inharmony without other cause. 
Such points can usually be amicably ad¬ 
justed. 

4— Recognize the common principle 
that the comforts, enjoyments and bene¬ 
fits of the home belong equally to every 
member of the family, and proportionately 
to every inmate, entirely regardless of pro- 


RULES FOR THE HOME. 163 

prietary ownership. In the family all are 
equal, according to personal worthiness 
and just demeanor, and all should share 
according to the needs for comfort and 
accommodation. 

5— Remember also that in the very na¬ 
ture of human birth and development all 
cannot be alike, or think, feel and see af¬ 
fairs in the same light. There must be 
difference of opinion and this should be 
considered by all. 

6 — The particular nature and temper¬ 
ament of each mind will necessarily color 
its thinking on all subjects; and as any 
subject embodies a wholeness that no one 
mind can probably comprehend alone, the 
combined action of several harmonious 
minds of different calibre, development or 
understanding may yield far better results 
than the decision of one alone. 

Therefore: Consider also the views of 
the others in deciding momentous ques¬ 
tions in the family, and act as nearly as 


164 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

possible according to the real needs and 
wishes of all together. 

7— Do not press your own views and 
opinions unduly upon others against their 
ability to see as you do. Present your 
views, well thought out, and explain to 
each one according to that one's ability 
to examine the subject; then wait for the 
mental faculties to analyze the subject- 
matter. In this way a mutual understand¬ 
ing may usually be reached. 

8 — Be as ready ro consider the plans of 
other members of the home as you expect 
them to consider your plans or wishes. 
They also have wishes and desires upon 
which their happiness often depends. 
Home is theirs, as also it is yours. Work 
all together, and it may continue to be 
home for you all. 

9— In order that home may be harmon¬ 
ious each member must be reasonably con¬ 
tent. Therefore: Be entirely tolerant of 


RULES FOR THE HOME. 165 

the wishes and plans of each one. Try to 
find ways to improve conditions for each 
and all, and so to bring greater content. 

10— The special wishes of each one 
will usually correspond to the particular 
features of temperament possessed by that 
one. By considering this sympathetically 
you can often determine in advance just 
what to do or how to proceed to please that 
one and gain appreciative affection. This 
may easily become one of the strongest 
bonds between members of the family, and 
render home doubly attractive. 

Therefore: Look sympathetically for the 
temperamental wish or desire of each and 
strive to meet and gratify it. Those who 
are pleased by your actions will gravitate 
toward you, naturally. 

11 — If you are blessed with a keener 
insight, better appreciation, or deeper 
knowledge of the affairs under considera¬ 
tion, aim to so place what you have before 
the others that they may see the wisdom 


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of sharing the superior qualities, as such, 
rather than to impress them with your 
own superiority in the matter. The win¬ 
ning of their approval will be sufficient for 
the time. You will duly come in for the 
higher esteem in their minds without striv¬ 
ing for it. Self-admiration clouds the 
mental sky. 

12 — In cases where you may be certain 
that the others are wrong in their con¬ 
clusions, it is frequently better, after care¬ 
fully presenting the right views, to with¬ 
hold argument and let the matter rest for 
awhile. 

You can silently think the facts that 
you have proved to your own satisfaction, 
and direct the thought to them in a clear 
sympathetic attitude. The next meeting 
may find a changed attitude and a readi¬ 
ness to more carefully consider the sub¬ 
ject. 

13— The actual attitude of your 


RULES FOR THE HOME. 167 

mind toward the others, with a total ab¬ 
sence of personal conceit or arrogance on 
your part, will always be a powerful in¬ 
fluence of attraction toward any views that 
you may present. 

Think quietly but firmly what you have 
determined to be right, and await the frui¬ 
tion of the thought. 

14— In drawing plans for the home, 
for mutual action in lines of social enter¬ 
tainment, private enjoyment, education, 
improvement physical or mental, adorn¬ 
ment, useful purchases, visitors, etc., al¬ 
ways consult sympathetically with each 
one, carefully considering the requirements 
of all and endeavor to bring out the neces¬ 
sary wholeness of view to result in a har¬ 
monious decision for the mutual good. 
Each one should give way in whatever 
point is not feasible for all. 

15— Aim to make the home comfort¬ 
able for every inmate. Seek to determine 
what particular features of personal ease 


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or enjoyment will be necessary to establish 
comfort as a feature of enjoyment of the 
home for each one. Let all be restful. 

16— Let the home be enjoyable to 
every different temperament in the family ; 
seek to provide something that will please 
and entertain each one. 

17— Make the home a place of contin¬ 
ual improvement for each and for all. Let 
there be features educational, enjoyable, 
artistic, ornamental, literary, scientific, 
practical, experimental, and in any line that 
shall encourage advancement, progress, 
growth and accomplishment in at least 
some one direction for which each one is 
fitted by nature and temperament. These 
may be books, music, scientific instruments, 
works of art, games, and all instruments 
of innocent pleasure and enjoyment, for all 
of these lead upward and educate the grow¬ 
ing mind. They also tend to hold the mem¬ 
bers of the family together and so to per¬ 
petuate the home. 


RULES FOR THE HOME. 169 

18— Arrange all home expenditures 
consistently with the family exchequer. 
There is no greater bane to the family or 
destroyer of the home than unwarranted 
extravagance and consequent debt. All 
needs can be supplied from a moderate 
income, if it be wisely administered. 

19— Let those in charge encourage 
moderation in all things. Excesses are al¬ 
ways undesirable, and usually dangerous. 
They do not conduce to happiness in the 
family or to a right maintenance of the 
home. 

20— Control all personal indulgences 
in food, drink, confections, theaters, sports 
and any of the features of personal life 
that tend to degrade the moral nature. 

The Home influences should maintain 
moderation in all these often misleading 
elements of the human-animal life. The 
danger lies wholly in the excess that arises 
from overdoing the pleasurable indul¬ 
gence. 


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21— Let each member of the family 
encourage the other members in all of the 
various- ways and means that exist for de¬ 
veloping the higher phases of living in har¬ 
mony, contentment and appreciation of 
each other. This will multiply the in¬ 
fluence on all and tend to render the home 
the most desirable place for each one at all 
times when possible to be there. 

This will always be the grandest in¬ 
fluence on character, and hold on purity in 
life. It will also do more than all other 
influences in life combined, to render each 
one a true and valuable citizen in whatever 
position may be occupied out in the world 
later on. Home, then will stand next to 
heaven in the consideration of each one, as 
it rightly should. Verily: “There is no 
place like home. ,, 


XII. 

Rules for Business. 








CHAPTER XII. 

RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF 
BUSINESS. 

In planning definite rules by which to 
transact business, several questions arise 
which may somewhat perplex the thinker. 
Whenever the subject comes forward we 
are at once confronted with the fact that 
the business must be so conducted as to 
become a success, or else it will prove to be 
a failure and may even become a disaster. 

This self-evident fact coupled with a de¬ 
termination to succeed, perhaps at any cost, 
has probably led many a somewhat careless 
thinker to decide that he must sacrifice 
everything to the carrying out of his pur¬ 
pose. This decision is but a step from the 
open door to wrong doing for the purpose 
of business gain; and this is several steps 
nearer to disaster than the former fear of 
failure could bring him. 

There are, indeed, many self-sacrifices 

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that must be made as needed. But we do 
not believe that any undue course of action 
is necessary. Successful accomplishment 
in any path of life is more easily attained 
and longer maintained by strictly honor¬ 
able methods than by any other, and what 
cannot be gained by such methods cannot 
be worth the while, no matter how great 
the temptation. 

Herein, Mental Science attempts to offer 
a few suggestions for action; not because 
they are considered new or remarkable, but 
as ‘'memory joggers” to busy workers. It 
is doubtful if anything can be said upon 
this subject that has not been said and re¬ 
iterated by moralists for ages; but some 
of the sentiments seem to have been for¬ 
gotten by altogether too many for the com¬ 
mon good of the community. The follow¬ 
ing suggestions are offered: 


RULES FOR BUSINESS. 


1— Whatever you undertake, give it 
your utmost endeavor in that direction. 
Often it is the very "last farthing” of effort 
that makes the connection and accom¬ 
plishes the purpose. 

2— If the purpose to be undertaken is 
not worthy of all possible effort that you 
can make, that may be necessary to its 
accomplishment, then it is not worth your 
notice. Abandon it at once, and give your 
time and attention to something of value. 

3— When you enter upon a course of 
action look the entire proposition over 
carefully, in order to grasp all of its diffi¬ 
culties as well as its probable points of easy 
accomplishment, and watch for the line of 
least resistance. Begin there, and mean¬ 
while keep busy planning a battering-ram 
for the obstructive phases of action in¬ 
volved. This sort of a beginning will be 
likely to succeed later on, if success is 
possible with that problem. 


176 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

4— If success seems doubtful and an 
easier way appears through loose action or 
unfair means, listen not to the tempter—- 
there are ditches ahead—but apply your 
mental efforts again freshly to the subject, 
look over its requirements more keenly, 
meditate and sleep over it and you will see 
the right way out of the difficulty. 

5— Determination marshals all the 
forces of possibility; and a free conscience 
attracts the powers of infinity. Therefore: 
Stand always by the voice of your own 
consciousness of right, and keep always 
alive to the full possibilities of intelligent 
effort. Such application of the personal 
forces will succeed. 

6— All Business effort is a practical 
application of the forces of the mind to the 
needs and requirements of human life. 
Therefore: Study the actual relations ex¬ 
isting between the requirements and the 
forces available for their accomplishment, 
and you will succeed. 


RULES FOR BUSINESS. 


177 


7— Under close and earnest application 
of the mental forces at command, the 
higher and finer forces of the spiritual na¬ 
ture come forward from the subconscious 
realm, where everything possible in human 
life is known, and the problem is soon 
solved. 

When the wrong path of intellectual 
shrewdness, alone, is entered upon, these 
high forces of the soul abandon the under¬ 
taking, because they cannot operate in 
those elements of non-reality. Then the 
sense-mind is left to its own limited de¬ 
vices. It may seem to succeed for a while, 
but the lane is not long and at the end the 
very successes prove to be the worst of fail¬ 
ures. ‘Tor what shall it profit a man, if 
he shall gain the whole world, and lose his 
own soul?” 

8 — Perhaps the common purpose of en¬ 
tering upon a business career is the gain¬ 
ing of a livelihood; and naturally enough 
the obtaining of money for that accom¬ 
plishment becomes the first consideration. 


178 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

In ordinary business ways this soon be¬ 
comes the ground of temptation as regards 
easy ways, methods and means. Remem¬ 
ber, here, that the easiest ways are not 
necessarily the best ways, or the most last¬ 
ing in good results. 

9— In order that an established busi¬ 
ness shall be a true success it must have the 
quality of endurance. Therefore: In every 
question of method consider well the effects 
to accrue as time goes on. You may gain 
today and have an empty treasury tomor¬ 
row or next year because you did. Is it 
worth while ? 

10— The greatest asset in continued 
business conduct, is one’s reputation for 
honest dealing and integrity, in the com¬ 
munity with which he must deal. All 
people like to deal with a square man; and 
multiplied profits will in time outcount 
larger gains on the spot. Therefore: Be 
honest with all and trust the future. 


RULES FOR BUSINESS. 


179 


11— To increase gains look for the 
larger needs of the public and be always a 
little ahead of actual requirements of the 
day. People like the “new” and are quick 
to recognize real utility. They will pat¬ 
ronize one who is looking out for their 
good and is ready to advance together with 
the new learning of the day. Be pro¬ 
gressive. 

12— Seek to interest your client or cus¬ 
tomer. Learn his tastes, preferences, 
wishes, needs—even his whims, and seek to 
fill the want. Show him that he wants 
what you can supply, not that you want to 
sell or supply to him. 

13 — In any line of business the secret 
of success is to supply a demand that 
already exists, or that can easily be made to 
exist. First seek the demand, then aim to 
meet it with the best that can be produced. 

14— Quality in the production should 
be the first consideration. Whether it be 


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business, profession, religion, philosophy 
or art, always bring forth the truest, 
soundest, best and therefore most enduring 
as well as the most satisfying of produc¬ 
tions to those who can appreciate quality. 
Such always counts favorably in the long 
run. Even in common business lines the 
best lasts the longest; and permanent satis¬ 
faction to a smaller number is more profit¬ 
able than the passing fancy of the multi¬ 
tude. Study quality. 

15—There are also other objects and 
purposes for the conducting of business 
than the gaining of wealth or the accum¬ 
ulating of this world’s goods. Among 
these may be mentioned: 

(a) The increasing of general good for 
the whole race, as in explorations or the 
developing of new products. 

(b) The developing of local interests for 
specific communities, structural, educa¬ 
tional or individual supplies in advancing 
lines. 


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(c) The improving of qualities or pro¬ 
ducing of new goods or articles for the 
advancement of the general good in any 
way. 

(d) Scientific research, investigation 
and exploration of new localities and 
products. 

All of these and kindred affairs may be 
the objects of business organization and 
pursuit and may also come under the gen¬ 
eral rules of procedure. Money-getting 
may or may not be included in the conduct 
of the enterprise. 

16—Whatever the line of business that 
you engage in, the accomplishing of its 
purpose constitutes its success. It may be 
a complete and perfect success but not gain 
a dollar of money; or it may be made to 
produce much money yet fail utterly in ac¬ 
complishing its higher or real purpose. 

Strive to have your enterprise so con¬ 
ducted that it shall do the most good pos¬ 
sible and at the same time return such 


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monetary profits as may b,e desirable in the 
enterprise and consistent with the nature 
of the work undertaken. And also deal 
with each client in such a way that he may 
forever hold you in high esteem as well as 
retain a full appreciation of the enterprise, 
its objects and its purpose. All this will 
conduce to permanent success. 

17— Cultivate a genuine enthusiasm in 
your enterprise, whatever it may be, ac¬ 
cording to its nature and its usefulness. 
See all its good points, features and appli¬ 
cations to human life, endeavoring mean¬ 
while also to see how to advance its use¬ 
fulness. Make it truly indispensable to the 
people and they will surely cover you with 
appreciation and fill your coffers with the 
“needful.” It is the way of human nature. 
But you must seek their needs and wants, 
keeping all your selfish desires in the back¬ 
ground. 

18— As you think, yourself, about 
your purposes and your doings, so the pub- 


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lie will grow to think. This is the law of 
psychic communion one with another. 
Thought takes form; and as one thinks so 
the other sees. Incidentally he also acts as 
he sees. Therefore, your own thinking of 
the right action may cause others to do the 
thing, and so in a legitimate way, to in¬ 
crease your legitimate business. Think, 
continuously, as you want it to be. 

19— In this connection be firmly es¬ 
tablished on the ground of right principles 
of action. When approaching your client 
or when he is approaching you, know in 
mind and in your thinking that: 

1— You have the right goods for his 
want. 

2— The qualities are all right. 

3— The prices are rightly adjusted to the 
true values. 

4— You are rightly inclined to a square 
and honest deal with him. 

Have full confidence that you are ap¬ 
proaching a deal. Expect him to close the 


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transaction favorably. Mentally see him 
pleased with the arrangement and the bar¬ 
gain completed. 

In these ways you mentally aid him over 
possible points of weak thinking and inde¬ 
cision which might keep him from closing 
even the best bargain on earth. 

But see well to it that all the above fea¬ 
tures of right preparation for an honest 
bargain are fully in order on your part. 
The mental-spiritual Law will attend to 
the rest. 

20—Be honest and act in a straightfor¬ 
ward manner. 

Be wise and consider all facts of the case. 

Be confident of the right of your cause. 

Be expectant of the consummation of 
your plans. 

Consummate them yourself by thinking 
them to a desirable finish. 

Mentally see the right act as completed. 
Think what you want, not what you do not 


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185 

want. The finished thought is of the na¬ 
ture of the completed act, and leads to it. 

The law is yours to use—not to trifle 
with. Use it—first, honestly; second, earn¬ 
estly; third, thoroughly; and finally to a 
finish, and all that you can rightly want is 
yours without even the asking. 

The divine forces of the mind are equal 
to the demands of any honorable under¬ 
taking. Be confident, active and trustful, 
and you will become rich in all that is 
worth possessing. 



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XIII. 

Rules for Health. 










CHAPTER XIII. 

RULES FOR HEALTH. 

The matter of health is one of the first 
considerations in human life. It is also 
one of the least understood subjects, if not 
indeed the least so of all. Even the matter 
of what actually constitutes health is per¬ 
haps as little understood as any phase of 
the subject. 

The nature of health is wholeness of 
life. But how many ever think of it in 
that way? 

A mode of action in life that leaves the 
instrument of the action in a perfect state 
of wholeness, is a healthy action. 

Any condition of life that shows forth 
wholeness of activity is a healthy condi¬ 
tion. To be real, life must be complete. 

Health is generally understood as a 
sound condition, and that which is sound 
is whole. In fact, hale, hearty, healthy, 

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sound and whole, are almost synonymous 
terms. The most of them are derived 
from the Anglo Saxon, Hal, meaning 
hale; sound; whole. 

The term health relates both to the body 
and the mind. It includes the mental state 
or condition. 

A whole mind is said to be sound, sane, 
healthy. 

A whole body is healthy, hearty, sound. 

All these states of mind or body indi¬ 
cate wholeness of condition. Disarrange 
this and disorder prevails. 

All disorder in life is unhealthy, and if 
continued leads to destruction of life. 

“The Wholeness ,, of condition, once 
broken, constantly deteriorates there¬ 
after ; and unwholeness always culminates 
in nothingness, which is its nature. 

It is, therefore, especially important that 
each one should maintain as his condition 
of health, a state of wholeness of both 
mind and body. 

In all transactions of life the mind comes 


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before the body and should have the first 
consideration. 


RULES. 

1— Maintain always a calm state of 
mind, alert, active, and vigorous in think¬ 
ing processes, but free from agitation or 
excitement. 

2— The body naturally reproduces 
whatever action the mind maintains. 
Therefore: Do not indulge or entertain in 
mind, ideas or thoughts which contain 
any action that you would not wish to 
have exhibited in the body. 

3— Whatever the mind accepts as fact 
and so believes, is repeated in action in 
the nerves-centers and so reproduced as 
bodily condition. Therefore: Think no 
thought of an imperfect condition, to the 
extent of that state of belief where it forms 
the unhealthy picture that can reflect to 
the body, and the unhealthy condition will 
not prevail. 


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4— Fear is the most unhealthy influence 
from the mind to the body, because it is 
unwhole as a state of mind; unsound as a 
mental process; and unnatural in all its 
action. Therefore: Avoid fear of all 
kinds and degrees. Hold the mind calm 
and the intelligence clear and ways to 
overcome the difficulty without danger will 
often be seen. 

5— The law of expectation, by which 
the mind expects what it believes and so 
anticipates that it will come, is one of the 
most powerful operative laws of mentality. 
Therefore: Expect that which you want 
because it is right; and hold it so until 
the thought forms its picture of the 
healthy state of action, which will then 
reflect to the nerve-centers and reestablish 
the corresponding condition of health. 
This is nature’s law of action operating 
between the mind and the body. 

6 — All reflected nerve-action in the 
body corresponds to the activities of 


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thought in the mind, being like it in char¬ 
acter, force, and result. Therefore: To 
produce a desired bodily action regulate 
your thinking so that the thought you 
formulate shall carry the character, qual¬ 
ity and power of action desired. 

7 -So FORMULATE YOUR THINKING that 

the harmonies and perfect qualities of the 
wholeness of real life combine in your in¬ 
tellectual comprehension, and the true pic¬ 
ture of whole and perfect life will spon¬ 
taneously form in mind and reproduce by 
natural reflection in those nerve-centers 
which relate the body itself to life. 

8 — Know that by the very nature of all 
the laws that constitute life and living, the 
natural state of life for every being is a 
state of harmony, perfection and whole¬ 
ness; and that consequently the natural 
condition of the body is a state of health. 
Then you can realize health as the right 
and real state of every living creature. 
Any variation from this perfect state is 


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not a reality but a seeming, caused by some 
error of thought. It can be adjusted by 
right thinking. 

9— Realize in mind that as conditions 
of ill-health all lack wholeness, they are 
unreal, and can be no part of the real 
scheme of life in being. Then, in your 
conception of this fundamental truth you 
can mentally deny that there is any reality, 
as a fact, in sickness or in disease. There 
is no actual fact, truth or reality to 

ANY DISEASE. 

The confident knowing of this truth is 
a rebuke to the erroneous thinking that 
calls sickness real, and it stops the action, 
thus dispelling the illusion. The full real¬ 
ization of this principle of life has removed 
many a troublesome condition, thus restor¬ 
ing health. Real life is never diseased. 

The continuous state of understanding 
in which all of these features of realiza¬ 
tion are fully comprehended as the facts 
of life, is the strongest possible influence 


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in the retaining of health, strength and 
happiness, steadily and permanently, 
throughout the life period, here. 

10— Be cheerful and expectant of 
good results, holding active in mind the 
conscious realization of what you would 
have, as constituted in your being and 
therefore already yours. This tends to 
dispel illusions and enables you to retain 
health of both body and mind. Each part 
shares the qualities of the whole. 

11— Think (speak mentally) affirma¬ 
tions of health, harmony, wholeness, 
soundness, strength, endurance, power, 
contentment, assurance, confidence and 
peace. Any one or more of these may be 
used at any time, as the demand may 
dictate. A thought of truth is an assur¬ 
ance of life. 

There is no greater influence toward the 
maintaining of a sound condition of health 
at all times, even under adverse circum¬ 
stances, than this assured thinking. 


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Through the operation of a natural law of 
all mental and physical life, the mind’s 
thought is the body’s master. 

12 — On this earth-plane man is 
mind and his life is mental activity. The 
laws of his life here, then, are mental laws. 
Obey these in mental realization and you 
will share their soundness, in the enjoy¬ 
ment of bodily health, which naturally re¬ 
produces them. 

13— Understand that man is funda¬ 
mentally a spiritual being, and that none 
of the bodily, or even mental, inconsisten¬ 
cies are in any way possible to the nature 
and substance of spiritual essence or 
energy. In this you will readily see that 
he is not fundamentally or really subject 
to disease, sickness or ill-health, in any 
degree. Then you can deny the error, 
affirm the truth and continue in the real¬ 
ization of the right. 

14— Know, realize and appreciate the 


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fact that spiritual activity is the original 
and real life; that it is reproduced in the 
mentally active operations of the mind; 
and that this mental activity is again re¬ 
produced in the physical action of nerve- 
center, nerve, organ and tissue of the 
body; then you will see that logically one 
cannot be radically different from the 
other—as, one well and the other sick— 
in reality. The difference is a matter 
of adjustment of action to the facts of 
reality. Reality is permanent and does not 
change. 

The action of substance, when com¬ 
pletely inverted becomes shadow; and the 
shadow is appearance, not reality. Logic 
will help us to adjust all these differences, 
and even apparent inconsistencies. 


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HINTS FOR DAILY LIVING. 

15— Live as nearly in nature's ways as 
may be consistent with surrounding cir¬ 
cumstances. Artificial restraints are ob¬ 
structions to natural living but sometimes 
must be borne with for a while in consid¬ 
eration of others. The main considera¬ 
tions, here, are air, food, drink, sleep, 
clothing, rest, recreation. 

As regards modes and rules, many opin¬ 
ions about these prevail, often conflicting, 
sometimes radically so. Mental Science 
recommends moderation, with the employ¬ 
ment of common-sense methods and 
means, somewhat as follows: 

16— Breathe fresh (natural) atmos¬ 
phere as much of the time as possible. A 
reasonable amount of fresh air is usually 
sufficient for the maintaining of health. 

17 — Keep as near to a mean temper¬ 
ature as you can in the consistency of af¬ 
fairs. Where weather interferes regulate 


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by means of clothing and protective in¬ 
fluences, as the easiest and quickest means 
of adjustment. Where the physical cir¬ 
cumstances cannot be controlled, make the 
equality adjustment mentally. The mind 
can think conditions for itself; can refuse 
to recognize sensations, to a considerable 
extent, and so can ride over some such 
obstructions. Not to notice is not to 
know; and what you do not know you will 
not feel. The mind is really the master 
here, and may control the sensations, 
within reasonable degrees. All such con¬ 
trol is beneficial. 

18— The body is a physical instrument, 
but is under mental influence, and there is 
a wide range of mental control. In ex¬ 
tremes, however, its nature must be recog¬ 
nized and suitable protection be given it. 

Spiritually, man may pass through fire 
or ice, because they are nothing to him. 
Even mentally he might deal with these 
elements, because they are only what he 


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thinks them to be; but physically he should 
conform to the limits of bodily construc¬ 
tion while recognizing its elasticity as re¬ 
gards its response to the mental influence. 
Use reason in adjusting the mental control 
to the physical limitations. 

Remember that the mind is the real, and 
the body a sense instrument capable of re¬ 
sponse to a large extent. Be the master 
of sense, not its slave. Then the mind 
will be the ruler. 


FOOD. 

19—Eat a sufficient quantity, neither 
too little nor too much for nourishment, 
of plain, natural food, suitably prepared 
for the digestive operations; all should be 
in a natural condition—fruits and vege¬ 
tables ripe, but not decaying. Meats and 
fish, fresh, or suitably prepared for keeping 
in perfect condition. Poultry, Fish, Veal 
and Pork should always be cooked well 
done. 


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DRINKS. 

20—The two natural drinks are water 
and milk. Water is the only real drink, 
milk being partly a food and water its 
liquid element. All other drinks are arti¬ 
ficial, and require some adjustment. 

Many people do not drink enough water, 
having supplanted it with artificial prod¬ 
ucts. There is little doubt but that water 
is the best of liquids for the human system. 
Animals drink it exclusively. It is the 
only real liquid and has to be the base of 
every prepared drink. 

Drink water or milk and you will make 
no mistake. All other drinks are a matter 
of choice and must be judged by each one 
by experience. All are more or less un¬ 
healthy to use. 

Alcoholic drinks, of all kinds, are a curse 
to humanity. They cannot be used with¬ 
out injury, even when they may seem to be 
helpful, medicinally. 

Tea, coffee and cocoa if used abnor- 


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mally, lead to a desire for alcohol in some 
form, which is a stronger ingredient of a 
similar kind; and alcohol in any form leads 
directly to the use of drugs of a still more 
powerful nature. All these kill, but none 
of them can “make alive,” or produce life 
in any way. Drink water and live. 

21—Both food and drink are solely for 
the purpose of supplying nature with mate¬ 
rials for the rebuilding and sustaining of 
the physical body. They have no other 
legitimate purpose. A normal pleasure in 
eating and drinking is nature’s provision 
for the selecting of materials suitable for 
the rebuilding that is to be done. The ma¬ 
terials must be suitable else the right work 
cannot be done. 

When we select only by a depraved or 
unnatural desire of a distorted palate for 
strange tastes, etc., we are sure to take 
the wrong ingredients. Then nature is 
helpless and cannot do the work that 
should be done. Besides this the system 


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must get rid of the wrong ingredients 
placed in it and we suffer the consequences. 
Is it worth while ? 

Half the sickness of the world traces to 
these unnecessary violations of natural 
law. The act is first mental—later phys¬ 
ical, and both “pipers” have to be paid. 
The remedy also must be first mental and 
then a physical adjustment. 

SLEEP. 

22—Sleep sufficiently to be enabled to 
feel refreshed and enjoy living. Give na¬ 
ture a good chance but do not try to force 
more sleep than she can use properly. 

In general one needs all the hours dur¬ 
ing which normal sleep will continue. 
About one-third of the time can usually 
be devoted to sleep and rest, when one is 
in a normal condition. If circumstances 
compel less, the mind can adjust relations 
with the body so as to maintain equilibrium 
with less than usual. Habit has much to 
do with it, and habit is of the mind. It can 


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be regulated and controlled to a consider¬ 
able extent. Think whatever you require. 

Sleep is a subconscious mental act. The 
mind needs time to repair and refresh the 
tired, worn, and somewhat injured body. 
It calls for rest, quiet, and uninterrupted 
action to accomplish this, and sleep is the 
condition required. During sleep the 
mind restores the body to a normal state. 
We should give to sleep all the time that 
nature needs for this process. 

CLOTHING. 

23—Clothing is worn for protection, 
as everyone understands; and perhaps 
nothing need be said about it here. On the 
other hand, some people are careless about 
both comfort and personal covering; and 
perhaps a few suggestions may conduce to 
a better employment of the articles that 
constitute clothing. As regards comfort 
no one can be an absolute guide for an¬ 
other. Some require more protection 
from external influences than do others. 


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The general rule of personal comfort 
should be observed, in a measure, by all. 
Comfort conduces to health. 

The Imagination plays a considerable 
part in the matter of feelings of heat or of 
cold. A thought of either of these may be 
so repeated in nerve-action that the sensa¬ 
tion of heat or of cold will appear in evi¬ 
dence, even entirely against the true facts. 
Learn to analyze the evidence of feeling 
before accepting the testimony of sense. 

It is possible to apply too much or too 
little clothing, either day or night, and so 
to establish a habit of calling for more 
when less would be an improvement, and 
vice versa. Clothing should be changed to 
follow radical changes in temperature. 
Give nature no surprises, and she will stand 
by your requirements. 

REST. 

24—Rest is an important feature of 
human life. It extends to both the mental 
and the bodily features. Both the mind 


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and the body require it, and in time, if con¬ 
tinuously deprived of it they give out, or 
fail to respond to requirements. It is an 
idea, however, that is much abused. 

Some are inclined to rest too much and 
consequently to ignore the duties of life— 
“born tired/' so to speak. Others are 
never at rest; always active but not really 
accomplishing much in any line. Wasted 
energy. Time lost in doing over but never 
completing the action attempted. These 
would better stop, rest, sleep a while. 

The better way is to rest sufficiently to 
allay the over-nervous tendency of really 
tired nerves; then attack the work with a 
rested mind, quiet nerves, and fuller force 
for the execution of work. Each one 
should study his own requirements in 
these ways and rest sufficiently to keep in 
an even state of mind and a quiet, firm 
state of the physical structure. 

The mind is always active, subcon¬ 
sciously. In its sense-consciousness it re- 


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quires the “rest” of change of idea, as a 
basis of action. 

All of this, rightly considered and prop¬ 
erly regulated, is conducive to health in 
all ways. 

RECREATION. 

25—The need of recreation rests en¬ 
tirely upon the character of one’s employ¬ 
ment or occupation, coupled with the gen¬ 
eral condition of health, and the state of 
mind in which the subject holds himself. 

Some are “on the go” all or much of the 
time, yet are neither well nor contented. 
Others never change locality or occupa¬ 
tion, yet are never sick. A desire to go or 
to change, soon creates a seeming necessity 
for the experience. Desire always claims 
indulgence. 

Where the duties of life are not fully en¬ 
joyed and tend to grow monotonous, a 
change of scene, surroundings and in¬ 
fluences is often beneficial and conducive 
to an improved state of health for the body 


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as well as ease for the mind. The mind's 
“rest” is change, not lethargy. It is ever 
active. Its basis in spiritual life assures 
that. 

The nearer the mind can be kept to a 
state of mental wholeness, the more of 
wholeness will the body show forth. A re¬ 
stricted life does not conduce to either 
freedom of action or wholeness of con¬ 
dition. The activities of life are infinite in 
number and variety, as well as in quality. 

Enjoy such recreation as you can with¬ 
out neglecting real duties or wasting use¬ 
ful energies in frivolous thinking to no 
useful purpose. Work, rest and recrea¬ 
tion, all together, make for a healthy life. 
These also tend toward useful and reliable 
citizenship. 


V 






XIV. 


A Manual of the Mind. 

















CHAPTER XIV. 

A MANUAL OF THE MIND. 

HOW TO THINK. 

What is the Mind? 

What is its Relation to Man? 

What is its Substance ? 

What is its Nature? 

How does it Operate ? 

What are its Limitations ? 

These are leading questions with regard 
to the mind, true answers to which every¬ 
one should have and understand. Full 
treatment of the subject would require a 
volume. We will endeavor to obtain brief 
answers for the limited description of this 
volume, by closely examining each ques¬ 
tion together with the qualities of the 
mind. 

THE MIND. 

On this earth-plane of life, where 
man uses the five senses as instruments 


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and thinks more or less intelligently, the 
mind is the man himself. The senses 
are his first instruments for conscious ac¬ 
tion, here, and the body of matter-stuff is 
the direct external instrument or reprodu¬ 
cing machine of the collected senses. 

The actual man, himself, is a spiritual 
being. His substance is spiritual activity, 
and he operates mathematically in spirit¬ 
ual intelligence. But we, here, do not 
come in full conscious contact with him in 
this high form. The mind expression of 
him is the highest that we can directly rec¬ 
ognize while we hold our consciousness in 
these earthly limitations. The spirit is 
only recognized through inspiration. 

As explained elsewhere the pure spirit 
of man becomes individualized as the spir¬ 
itual Soul, and the soul mentalizes, one 
plane further outward than the soul plane, 
as Mind, otherwise The mental Man. 

Because of this gradual withdrawing 


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213 


from the central consciousness of spirit 
and wholeness, in the one of being, Man, 
now acting temporarily as mind, conceives 
himself as separate from all else and so 
establishes his consciousness of things here 
in a sense of separateness, which presents 
to him his sense of feeling as in five forms 
of sensation. Thus, he has reached a 
sensational stage of the seeming that his 
being is in parts, pieces or phases of feel¬ 
ing and action. Here the mind is deluded 
about itself, its consciousness, and its life; 
and it forms conclusions accordingly, all 
of which are partly wrong and therefore 
limited in power for action in life. 

But these limitations all relate to the 
wrong views that have been entertained 
about life and being, not at all to man, him¬ 
self, either as spirit or as mind. The 
mind, therefore, is the spiritual entity, 
man, so adjusted as to be able to function 
on this outer plane, build a physical body, 
and exercise differing senses, in a seem- 


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ingly separated action. But the mind is 
not all confined to this limited and separa¬ 
ting action. It does not have to operate 
through the limited senses or continue to 
believe their illusive evidence. 

As man, himself, is the spiritual entity, 
he possesses all the real faculties of spir¬ 
itual being; and even when functioning as 
mind he can turn away all false appear¬ 
ances and think in higher ways, recogniz¬ 
ing the truths of spiritual wholeness and 
knowing his own relationship to them. 
Even as mind he possesses the powers of 
logic, and through the processes of reason 
he can at any time work back through 
pure thinking to the ground of right 
understanding of things that are real. 

The Mind, therefore, is dual in its 
power for action, and may turn, as upon 
a pivot, either down and out to the illusions 
of a sensuous appearance of life in a 
separateness of function and of power; or 
up and inward toward the consciousness 


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215 


of the ONE WHOLE REALITY OF BEING, 
which is man’s true state of being, in 
eternal reality. 

The mind is the pure spiritual entity 
of man, while he is functioning as a sepa¬ 
rate being. His higher phase, the in¬ 
dividual soul, is the guide and director of 
the mind while functioning here; and 
when the mind turns within to psychic 
influence, it receives information of a 
higher character and judges all things 
aright, which the senses cannot do. 

THE SUBSTANCE OF MIND. 

The real substance of the mind is the 
same as that of the soul and the spirit— 
pure spiritual activity which endures, in 
a perfect state, forever. When the mind 
turns downward to sense-evidence it sim¬ 
ply leaves, temporarily, its consciousness 
of substance in life, falls asleep in sensuous 
illusion and enters a seeming realm of un¬ 
substantial appearances, which have no 
substance, therefore are, as compared with 


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the real substance that endures, only 
shadows. These deceive for a while, but 
finally disappear. The so-called “sub¬ 
stance” of the sensuous plane is shadow, 
and only illusion. 

The substance of the mental plane, of 
the mind, itself, is Reflection, not shadow 
alone. It is the activity of the spiritual 
consciousness, reflected in the pure waters 
of understanding, and so reproduced in 
duplicated lines of form that present the 
truths of real life to the comprehension 
of the mind. As when you look upon the 
smooth face of the mirror you see the re¬ 
flected lines of all objects before it, and 
they seem to be real. 

The shadow is cast from the object by 
the light and is only an absence of light 
in that spot. It has no substance. 

The reflection is caused by rays of 
light passing from the object, and being 
returned by the opacity back of the smooth 
surface, back to the object, again. 


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Substance is spiritual activity. It is 
changeless, permanent, and real. The 
mind is fundamentally a substantial entity 
and is composed of substance which is 
spiritual and real. It will endure forever, 
but may change its views, beliefs and pur¬ 
poses. 

THE NATURE OF THE MIND. 

The nature and the character of the 
mind are the same fundamentally as the 
soul and the spirit. All together are man 
in his different phases of consciousness 
and degrees of living. 

In nature and character, then, the 
mind is pure, upright, true and good, as 
well as whole and real. When any person 
acts openly in other than these right ways, 
he is going against his nature and follow¬ 
ing a seeming lead of illusions. His acts 
then are not real or true and no good can 
come from them. Lead him back into 
right seeing and he will return to his real 
nature. 


218 MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 

That the nature of the mind is good 
and true, is shown by the operations of 
his conscience, which whenever he com¬ 
mits an evil act immediately reports the 
fact in such terms that he is at once 
ashamed of the deed. Even if alone he 
will hang his head and try to conceal his 
face. He will stoop and shuffle, and look 
no one in the eye, scarcely in the face. This 
is because he is troubled in his mind. He 
knows that his act is too low for his nature; 
that he has not been true to himself. It 
is his mind that reasons this out and 
shames for the act. This proves the 
reality and high state of consciousness of 
the mind itself, and shows that it can be 
guided aright. 

If each man will listen to and be guided 
by this inner voice of the real mind, the 
soul itself, he will change his ways, ignore 
temptation, and live uprightly. The real 
nature of his mind will lead him aright, by 
showing to him the right way to live and 
to do. 


A MANUAL OF THE MIND. 219 

HOW DOES THE MIND OPERATE? 

The action of the mind is thought. 

Thought is based upon Consciousness. 

One can think only about that of 
which he has become, to some degree, 
conscious. Unconscious thinking is a mis¬ 
nomer. 

Before a thought-process can be enter¬ 
ed upon, an idea must have been rec¬ 
ognized or conceived in the mind. The 
mind is the thinking man. 

The mind deals understanding^ with 
activities of ideas, and thereby evolves 
thoughts which embody the activities in 
forms that express the principles about 
which one is thinking. 

The Understanding is the chief in¬ 
strument in this operation. It is the 
spiritual power of knowing. 

Aim first to understand the subject 
about which you would think. 


220 


MANUAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. 


Let its ideas enter your conscious¬ 
ness. Think about the acts or the modes 
of action that are involved in the ideas of 
the subject, and what the results are to be 
or should be. See these acts mentally as 
completed; or at least as under way. This 
constitutes thinking upon that subject. 

The mind forms mental pictures of 
that about which it thinks in these ways. 
The pictures convey the ideas and their 
activities to .the inner consciousness. The 
completed information then appears before 
the mind on this plane, in conscious think¬ 
ing. The process is entirely spiritual in 
substance and in essence, though the 
operation is consciously mental. No part 
of real thinking is either sensuous or 
physical. Thought is a mental operation, 
but a spiritual process. 

For these same reasons the mind is 
practically unlimited in its powers or the 
range of its operations. It is only a mat¬ 
ter of knowing how to proceed with the 


A MANUAL OF THE MIND. 


221 


use of the mind and then applying the 
conscious forces with confidence. The 
mind should always be trusted. Under 
right direction its powers are unlimited. 
As it proceeds with any subject it mounts 
higher, and the more confidence there is 
placed upon it the nearer it comes to the 
spiritual source from which it draws still 
greater power. 

The mind is divine in nature and in¬ 
finite in extent; it can solve any problem 
that is open to the understanding. 

The pure mind expresses the Infinite 
Whole in the world of investigation, study, 
and learning. It may always be trusted. 


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